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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. -
14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier. -
Rosa Parks invigorated the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. -
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine Black students who enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. -
young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service. -
a series of political protests against segregation by Blacks and whites who rode buses together through the American South. -
He wrote the letter from prison, where he had been arrested for taking part in protests and marches in Birmingham, Alabama. -
A massive protest where almost 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. -
the Ku Klux Klan bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls. -
The House passed the Twenty-fourth Amendment, outlawing the poll tax as a voting requirement in federal elections -
Removed barriers to black enfranchisement in the South, banning poll taxes, literacy tests, and other measures that effectively prevented African Americans from voting. -
Around 600 people crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in an attempt to begin the Selma to Montgomery march. -
It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. -
The Court unanimously held that prohibiting and punishing marriage based on racial qualifications violated the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.