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The U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the racist policy of segregation by legalizing “separate but equal” facilities for blacks and whites.
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NAACP is founded
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Racist film comes out about the KKK
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The U.S. Supreme Court unanimous decision that overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine in public schools.
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Emmett Till was murdered in Money, Mississippi.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery City Bus and was arrested.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott begins
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Lucy enrolled as a graduate student in library science, becoming the first African American ever admitted to a white public school or university in the state
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The Little Rock 9 enter Central High School as federal troops oversee the situation sent by President Eisenhower.
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4 black college students sat at an all-white lunch counter and started a sit-in protest at a Woolworth’s store.
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the first African-American child to integrate a white Southern elementary school escorted to class by her mother and U.S. marshals due to violent mobs.
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Freedom riders begin a bus ride through the South to protest segregation.
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Freedom riders begin a bus ride through the south to protest segregation
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the premier legislation for Civil Rights into law.
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Medgar ever was shot in killed in his driveway at his home
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More than 250,000 people, march on Washington to demand immediate passage of the civil rights bill.
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MLK gives his I have a dream speech where over 250,000 people attended
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Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham protesting in the “most segregated city in America.”
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Malcom x was shot and killed by members of nation of Islam
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A march from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights begins.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law outlawing literacy tests.
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James H. Meredith, who in 1962 became the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi, is shot by a sniper shortly after beginning a lone civil rights march through the South.
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Huey Newton & Bobby Seale founded the “Black Power” political group known as the Black Panthers.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis.
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Bobby Kennedy was assassinated by sirhan sirhan
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first time white man had been executed for a crime against an African American since 1913 in Alabama
