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Emmett Louis Till was born as the only child to Louis and Mamie Till.
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Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American in major league baseball when he plays his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers
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Unanimously held Supreme Court decision that said that racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteen amendment.
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Emmett was tortured and killed by Roy Bryant and his half-brother J. W. Milam near Money, Mississippi because of his race.
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Rosa parks sat and refused to get of the seat where the white people sat in the Montgomery buses.
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A Boycott started by Rosa Parks which lasted 382 day, from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956. It all started because she stood for herself and her race and did not get out of the seat that was reserved for whites only.
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Look magazine published the confessions of J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant, two white men from Mississippi who were acquitted in the 1955 kidnapping and murder of Emmett Louis Till.
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James Meredith became the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi even though at first they wouldn’t let him join because of his race.
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Martin Luther King I Have a Dream speech talks about how he wishes in the future all races will be treated the same.
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On September 15, 1963, the Ku Klux Klan bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls. This murderous act shocked the nation and galvanized the civil rights movement.
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Martin Luther King received the Nobel Prize because of his contribuations to make blacks and whites equal.
