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The Supreme Court ruled that "in states where public graduate and professional schools existed for white students but not for black students, black students must be admitted to the all-white institutions, and that the equal protection clause required Sweatt's admission to the University of Texas School of Law."
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Emmett Till went to The Bryant store in Mississippi with his cousins, and theres a chance he may have whistled at Carolyn Bryant. Her husband, Roy Bryant, and Roy's brother, J.W. Milam, kidnapped and brutally murdered Till, dumping his body in the Tallahatchie River.
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Started by the arrest of Rosa Parks, the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. -
The Montgomery Improvement Association was a movement to fight for civil rights for African Americans and specifically for the desegregation of the buses in Alabama's capitol city, Tuscaloosa. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. -
The Greensboro sit-in was a protest. Young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service. The sit-in movement soon spread to college towns.
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The Mississippi Freedom Summer Project was various meetings, protests, freedom schools, freedom housing, freedom libraries, and a collective rise in awareness of voting rights and segregation experienced by African Americans in Mississippi.
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A large motel in Atlanta refused to offer any of its rooms to African-Americans. In a unanimous decision authored by Justice Clark, the Court held the government could enjoin the motel from discriminating on the basis of race under the Commerce Clause.
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An act that was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.
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Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. His assassination led to an outpouring of anger among Black Americans, as well as a period of national mourning
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Shirley became the first black candidate for a major-party nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's nomination.
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For more than three decades, Hank Aaron has been known for hitting more home runs than any other baseball player in history. However, he also spoke out against pervasive racism in major league baseball and broke racial barriers throughout his career.
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Barbara Jordan, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, became the first African American woman to deliver the keynote address to the Democratic National Convention.
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Supreme Court case which held that a university's admissions criteria which used race as a definite and exclusive basis for an admission decision violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964