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1954 Supreme Court case in which racial segregation in public schools was outlawed
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These are the major civil right protests.
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Protest in 1955–1956 by African Americans against racial segregation in the bus system of Montgomery, Alabama
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The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests which led to the Woolworth's department store chain reversing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.
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1961 event organized by CORE and SNCC in which an interracial group of civil rights activists tested southern states' compliance to the Supreme Court ban of segregation on interstate buses
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The sanctuary at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church downtown is packed with high school students today ready to take to the streets to commemorate the 1963 Childrens' March and promote a new initiative encouraging educational and social achievement.
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1963 civil rights demonstration in Washington, D.C., in which protesters called for “jobs and freedom”
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The Selma to Montgomery marches were three marches in 1965 that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement
