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legalization of separate but equal
The U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the racist policy of segregation by legalizing “separate but equal” facilities for blacks and whites. -
NAACP
NAACP is founded -
"the birth of a nation"
Racist film comes out about the KKK -
separate but equal in public schools
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimous decision that overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine in public schools. -
Murder of Emmit Till
Emmett Till was murdered in Money, Mississippi. -
Rosa Parks refused to giive her seat up
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery City Bus and was arrested. -
Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott begins -
Autherine Lucy
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 -
Little Rock 9
The Little Rock 9 enter Central High School as federal troops oversee the situation sent by President Eisenhower. -
sit-in protest
4 black college students sat at an all-white lunch counter and started a sit-in protest at a Woolworth’s store. -
Ruby Bridges
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. -
Freedom riders
Freedom riders begin a bus ride through the South to protest segregation. -
Freedom riders
Freedom riders begin a bus ride through the south to protest segregation -
Premier legislation for civil rights
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the premier legislation for Civil Rights into law. -
Medgar evers Assassinated
Medgar ever was shot in killed in his driveway at his home -
March on Washington
More than 250,000 people, march on Washington to demand immediate passage of the civil rights bill. -
I have a dream
MLK gives his I have a dream speech where over 250,000 people attended -
MLK arrested
Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham protesting in the “most segregated city in America.” -
Malcom X assassinated
Malcom x was shot and killed by members of nation of Islam -
Selma to Montgomery
A march from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights begins. -
outlawing of literacy test to vote
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law outlawing literacy tests. -
James Meredith shot
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. -
Black Panthers
Huey Newton & Bobby Seale founded the “Black Power” political group known as the Black Panthers. -
MLK assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis. -
Assassination of Bobby kennedy
Bobby Kennedy was assassinated by sirhan sirhan -
Henry hays
first time white man had been executed for a crime against an African American since 1913 in Alabama
