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Brown vs. Board of Education
(Topeka Kansas) Supreme Court rules that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.This ruling leads to a large scale of desegregation. -
Rosa Parks Refuses to Give up her Seat
Rosa parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the 'colored section' of a bus to a white passanger. In response to her arrest the Montgomery black community launches a bus boycott, causing busses to be desegregated. -
The Sit-Ins
Four black students from North Carolina begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth lunch counter. Six moths later they were served at that exact spot. This resulted in changes such as, integrating parks, swimming pools,libraries, theaters, and other public facilities. -
Freedom Riders
Student volunteers begin taking trip through the south to test out new laws that prohibit segregation in interstate travel facilities. During these trips they endured things such as being beaten, jailed, and their busses would be started on fire. -
March on Washington
Around 200,000 people join the March on Washington, then joining at the Lincoln Memorial where Martin Luther King performed his famous 'I have a Dream Speech.' -
Freedom Summer
Network of Civil Rights groups that include CORE and SNCC launch a massive effort to register black voters during what becomes known as the Freedom Summer. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the most affected civil rights legislation since reonstruction. The Act prohibits discrimination of all kinds of people based on race, color, religion, or natural orgin. -
Loving vs. Virginia
In Loving vs. Virginia, the Supreme Court rules that prohibiting interracial marriage is unconstitutional. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis Tennessee by James Earl Ray, while standing on the balcony in front of his room. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968 Signed
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
