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Abolishes slavery in the United States
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The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed, guaranteeing due process and equal protection rights to all citizens.
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The U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the racist policy of segregation by legalizing “separate but equal” facilities for blacks and whites.
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Robinson was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball. And joined the Brooklyn Dodgers and they started him at first base. He paved the way for African American Athletes.
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The U.S. Supreme Court unanimous decision that overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine in public schools.
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Was an NAACP lawyer that argued the Brown vs. Board of Education and was the first African American Supreme Court Justice.
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Emmett Till was murdered in Money, Mississippi
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery City Bus and was arrested.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott begins
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The Little Rock 9 enter Central High School as federal troops oversee the situation sent by President Eisenhower.
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4 black college students sat at an all-white lunch counter and started a sit-in protest at a Woolworth’s store
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Freedom riders begin a bus ride through the South to protest segregation.
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Was a protest of civil rights in Albany, Georgia and the groups that participated in it were the SNCC, NAACP, and the SCLC
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The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Bailey v. Patterson declares that segregation in transportation facilities is unconstitutional.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham protesting in the “most segregated city in America.”
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More than 250,000 people, march on Washington to demand immediate passage of the civil rights bill.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the premier legislation for Civil Rights into law.
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Malcom X was shot in Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights, New York
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A march from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights begins.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law outlawing literacy tests.
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Shot and Killed in Memphis, Tennessee
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Huey Newton & Bobby Seale founded the “Black Power” political group known as the Black Panthers.
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The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Loving v. Virginia declares that laws prohibiting inter-racial marriage are unconstitutional.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis.
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Assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles and was shot several times by Sirhan Sirhan
