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Rosa Parks is arrested for not giving up her seat on a crowded bus.
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Governor Faubus of Arkansas brings national guard to prevent black students from going into a white school.
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4 black students sit in at Woolworth's Lunch Counter until served.
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Angry mob sets fire to freedom riders bus from the inside.
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The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President.
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James Meredith being escorted to class to protect him because he was the first black student at the university.
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MLK write from Birmingham Jail
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MLK gave his famous "I Have A Dream" in Washington D.C.
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The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. Attended by some 250,000 people, it was the largest demonstration ever seen in the nation's capital, and one of the first to have extensive television coverage.
