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Brown vs. Board of education
this was a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that American state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality -
The Emmitt Till Murder
Emmitt Till was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 at the age of 14, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama -
The Little Rock Desegregation
Nine black kids in Little Rock, Arkansas where trying to go to a school, but weren't able to by the governor being racist, which leaded to Eisenhower bringing in military forces to protect them -
The Sit In Campaign
The Sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960, which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States -
The Freedom Ride
The Freedom Ride was when seven blacks and six whites left Washington, D.C. on two public buses bound for the Deep South. They intended to test the Supreme Court's ruling in Boynton vs Virginia (1960), which declared segregation in interstate bus and rail stations unconstitutional -
The Birmingham Campaign
The Birmingham Campaign was a movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama -
The "I Have A Dream Speech"
This public speech that was delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, in which he called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States -
The Assassination of President JFK
The death of President John F. Kennady was huge towards the Civil Rights movement since he was a huge believer in the movement and that civil rights was a moral cause -
The Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act was passed on, which was huge as It prohibits the unequal application of voter registration requirements, and racial segregation in schools, employment, and public accommodations -
MLK receives Nobel Peace Prize
Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent resistance to racial prejudice in America -
The Assassination of Malcolm X
Malcolm X assassinated by rival Black Muslims while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights -
The Voting Rights Act
The Voting Rights Act was signed and was to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution -
The Appointment of Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African American to be appointed in the U.S Supreme court -
The Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee which outpoured much mourning and anger from the black community -
The "Bloody Sunday" Event
This event was where some 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S. Route 80. They got only as far as the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where state and local lawmen attacked them with billy clubs and tear gas and drove them back into Selma
