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Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state lows establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Murder of Emmett Till
He was an African-American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
It was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. It started with Rosa Parks. -
Federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas
Also called Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School. Their enrollment was followed by Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. They then attended after the intervention of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. -
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Freedom riders
Were a civil rights activist who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States. -
Martin Luther King's speech
His speech was the climax of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. -
Malcolm X, The Ballot or the Bullet
Malcolm X'x famous speech which was delivered in Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland Ohio. -
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party requesting seating at the Democratic
They challenged the right of the Mississippi Democratic Party's delegation to participate in the convention claiming that the regulars had been illegally elected in a completely segregated process that violated both party regulations and federal law., -
Mississippi Three
Three civil rights workers was killed and later found buried in an earthen dam near Philadelphia, Mississippi. -
Civil Rights Act
It ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
The assassination of Malcolm X
Malcolm was an African-American Muslim human rights activist. He was shot once in the chest with a saved-off-shotgun in Manhattan Audubon Ballroom. In which he was preparing to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity. -
Selma to Montgomery Marches