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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
When, combined with several other cases, her suit reached the Supreme Court, that body, in an opinion by recently appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren, broke with long tradition and unanimously overruled the "separate but equal" doctrine of Plessy v. Ferguson, holding for the first time that de jure segregation in the public schools violated the principle of equal protection under the law guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. -
The Arrest of Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks arrested on Decmber 1, 1955 by organizing the black community in nonviolent defiance -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
On December 5, 1955 the blacks organized an community to a bus boycott. -
The Little Rock Nine
On September 4, 1957 the little rock nine was going into the Central High School. -
The Greensboro Sitin
On Feb. 1, 1960 in Greensboro blacks were sitting at a table
