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The Brown vs Board Of Education was a landmark of the United States supreme court case in which the state declared seperate public schools for black and whites to be unconstitutional
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Rosa Park refuses to give up her seat in Montgomery, Alabama to a white person .She was later arrested and triggering a long year sucess of the African American Boycott Movement
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The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the segregation of Montgomery, Alabama buses is unconstitutional.
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For the first time since Reconstruction, the federal government uses the military to uphold African Americans' civil rights, as soldiers escort nine African American students to desegregate a school in Little Rock, Arkansas. Daisy Bates, an NAACP leader, advised and assisted the students and eventually had a state holiday dedicated to her.
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Four African American college students hold a sit-in to integrate a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C. launching a wave of similar protests across the South.
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More than 200,000 people march on Washington, D.C., in the largest civil rights demonstration ever; Martin Luther King, Jr., gives his "I Have a Dream" speech.
