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The Supreme Court Decision of Plessy v. Ferguson
As a result, restrictive Jim Crow legislation and separate public accommodations based on race became commonplace. -
The Integration of Major League Baseball
In 1945, the Jim Crow policies of baseball changed forever when Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson of the Negro League's Kansas City Monarchs agreed to a contract that would bring Robinson into the major leagues in 1947. -
The Tuskegee Airmen
Tuskegee pilots garnered some of the most envied military records in history, and more importantly, advanced the American Civil Rights Movement by setting the precedent that would force the American military to begin to fully integrate in 1948. -
The Integration of the Armed Forces
On July 26, 1948, President Harry S. Truman signed this executive order establishing the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services, committing the government to integrate the segregated military. -
The Supreme Court Decision of Brown v. Board of Education
Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal". -
The Death of Emmitt Till
He died in Mississippi. Board of Education mandated the end of racial segregation in public schools, Till's death provided an important catalyst for the American civil rights movement. In 2007, over 50 years after the murder, the woman who claimed Till harassed her recanted parts of her account. -
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. the mother of the civil rights movement -
The Integration of Little Rock High School
The Little Nine Students. In Little Rock, Arkansas, Governor Orval Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling at Central High School. Central High was an all-white school. The 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1957
President Eisenhower. Which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement. -
The Greensboro Four Lunch Counter Sit- In
The Greensboro Four. Greensboro, North Carolina. They are considered a catalyst to the subsequent sit-in movement, in which 70,000 people participated. -
The Freedom Rides by Freedom Riders of 1961
President Johnson. Freedom Riders sought to test a 1960 decision by the Supreme Court in Boynton v. Virginia that segregation of interstate transportation facilities, including bus terminals, was unconstitutional as well. -
The Integration of the University of Mississippi
James Meredith, riots erupted on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford where locals, students, and committed segregationists had gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran attempting to integrate the all-white school. Meredith was allowed to register for classes the following morning and became the first black graduate from the university in August 1963. -
The Twenty-Fourth Amendment
President Johnson, The Twenty-fourth Amendment led to civil rights laws, such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Civil Rights Act forbids racial discrimination in education, employment, and the use of public facilities. The Voting Rights Act rendered illegal all state obstacles to black suffrage. -
The Integration of the University of Alabama by Vivian Malone & James A Hood
Vivian Malone and James A. Hood were the 1st two African American students to enroll at the University of Alabama in 1963. This was an important event because they were the first African Americans to become successful people. -
The March on Washington & ''I Have a Dream'' Speech by MLK
Martin Luther King, Jr., was a Baptist minister and social rights activist in the United States in the 1950s and '60s. He was a leader of the American civil rights movement. He organized a number of peaceful protests as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, including the March on Washington in 1963.The event aimed to draw attention to continuing challenges and inequalities faced by African Americans a century after emancipation. -
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas
Lee Harvey Oswald was the alleged assassin of US President, John F Kennedy. Dallas, Texas. His assassination was a turning point in the movement because no one was so sad and it was such a heartbreaking moment for the united states. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 signed by President Johnson
President Johnson ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin which is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement. -
The Assassination of Malcolm X
Thomas Hagan was a former member of the Nation of Islam and one of the assassins who killed Malcolm X in 1965, New York City. Malcolm X, his martyrdom, ideas, and speeches contributed to the development of Black nationalist ideology and the Black Power movement and helped to popularize the values of autonomy and independence among African Americans in the 1960s and '70s. -
The Selma to Montgomery March: "Bloody Sunday"
In Selma, Alabama. Martin Luther King Jr. and 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S. Route 80, where state and local lawmen attacked them with billy clubs and tear gas and drove them back into Selma. President Johnson addressed a joint session of Congress, calling for federal voting rights legislation to protect African Americans from barriers that prevented them from voting. -
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
President Johnson outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. -
The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee
James Earl Ray, the man who shot the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee. Led to an outpouring of anger among Black Americans, as well as a period of national mourning that helped speed the way for an equal housing bill that would be the last significant legislative achievement of the civil rights era. -
The Voting Rights Act of 1968
President Johnson aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
