Rosa Parks, an African-American women, is arrested December 1st for refusing to give up her seat to a white person. Bus boycott launched in Montgomery, Alabama.
After more than a year of boycotting the buses and a legal fight, the Montgomery buses desegregate.
Federal court forced the desegregation of school in the South.
Ruby had her first day of classes in William Frantz Public School for white people.
Freedom rides begin from Washington, D.C: Group of black and white people ride buses through the South to challange segregation.
Police arrest Civil Rights Leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr and other ministers demonstrating in Birmingham, Alabama, then turn fire hoses and police dogs on the marchers
June president Jhon F Kennedy call for civil rights act
President Jhon F Kennedy 1961-1963, shot deads
Look magazine published Morman Rockwell´s painting The Problem we all live with.
President Jhonson signs the civil rights act at 1964
Black nationalist leader malcolm x is murdered
Civil rights leader the rev. Martin Luther King Jr assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, un leashing violence in more than 100 cities.