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A Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
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Rosa Parks refused to move from her seat to allow a white passenger to sit. She was later arrested for her actions.
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A fight to allow blacks to attend the same universities that whites could.
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In response to Rosa Park's arrest blacks boycotted the bus system. They opted to car pool and find other means of transportation in order to deprive the public transit system of profits.
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Nine black students attended a previously all white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Sit-ins where a form of protest in which African-Americans would take up seats at lunch counters and restaurants in order to protest not being served.
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Martin Luther King delivered his famous anti-segrigation speech in Washington D.C.
