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The United States Supreme Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.
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14-year-old Chicagoan Emmitt Till is kidnapped and brutally murdered.
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Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African American woman, boarded a Montgomery bus and was told took give up her seat for a white man. She refused and was arrested.
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4 black college stuents organized a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter.
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Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, Alabama, writing the famous "Letter From Birmingham Jail."
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About 250,000 people, both black and white, marched to Washington to fight for civil rights, specifically equal job opportunities.
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Standing in from of the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King Jr. ave his famous "I Have A Dream" speech.
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4 young girls attending Sunday school are killed when a bomb goes off at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, a popular place for civil rights meetings.
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An amendment is passed that abolished the poll tax, which made it harder for poor black voters to vote.
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Lydon B Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act, ending unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public.
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Civil rights activist Malcolm X was assassinated by Nation of Islam member Thomas Hagan.
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This act completely prohibited discrimination in voting.
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Civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray, an extreme segregationist.
