The Fifteenth Amendment is passed guaranteeing the right to vote for all citizens regardless of race.
The Supreme Court rules that segregation is legal in the Plessy v. Ferguson case using the "separate but equal" argument.
he NAACP is founded by African-American leaders such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells.
Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American to play major league baseball
President Harry S. Truman ends segregation in the U.S. armed forces.
1955 - Rosa Parks is arrested for not giving up her seat on the bus. This sparks the Montgomery Bus Boycott which lasts for over a year. Eventually, segregation on the buses in Montgomery comes to an end
President Harry S. Truman ends segregation in the U.S. armed forces.
The Freedom Riders protest by riding buses into the segregated southern states challenging their Jim Crow laws.
- The March on Washington by over 200,000 protesters occurs. Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his "I Have a Dream" speech
- Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African-American Supreme Court Justice.
Race riots erupt in Watts, California
Race riots erupt in Watts, California.
President Lyndon Johnson issues an order requiring "Affirmative Action" in hiring minorities for federal government work.when
- Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African-American Supreme Court Justic
Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
The Fourteenth Amendment is passed guaranteeing all African-Americans the rights of full U.S. citizens.
- Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African-American Supreme Court Justice.
