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Brown vs. Board of education was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.
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A boy was murdered for waving at a white woman. His body was so badly beaten that he was unidentifiable.
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A civil rights protest during a time where African Americans refused to ride the city buses to protest against segregated seating. The boycott was four days after Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving her seat to a white man.
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Nine teens were the first African American students to enter Little Rock's Central High School.
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A protest that started when young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, NC. They refused to leave after being denied service.
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Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode buses into the segregated southern United States.
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The March on Washington was an interracial march by 250,000 blacks and whites. They protested segregation and job discrimination against blacks in the nation.
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A bomb exploded at the 16th Street Baptist Church as church members prepared for Sunday services. The racially motivated attack killed four young girls and shocked the nation.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the nation's premier civil rights legislation. The Act outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, required equal access to public places and employment, and enforced desegregation of schools and the right to vote.
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During a march state troopers and county possemen attacked the unarmed marchers with billy clubs and tear gas after they passed over the county line, and the event became known as Bloody Sunday.
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It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.
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A landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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