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In 1955, A 14 year old African American was brutally murdered after being accused of flirting with a white woman in her family's grocery store.
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In 1955, African Americans would refuse to ride city buses in Montgomery, this was a protest against racial segregation on the public transit system.
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In 1957, 9 African American students tried to enroll at Little Rock Central High School. At first they were not allowed to go there but then attended after the intervention of Dwight Eisenhower.
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In 1960, African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina after they were denied service.
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In 1962, On the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford, students and segregationists gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith who attempted integrate the all-white school.
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In 1963, The SCLC(and other civil right groups) planned a non-violence protest to desegregate Birmingham.
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In 1963, 4 members of the KKK planted at least 15 sticks of dynamite beneath the steps located in the church attached to a timing device. The explosion killed 4 girls and injured 22.
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In 1964, over 700 people (mostly white) fought to increase the number of registered black voters in Mississippi.
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In 1965, The Southern State legislatures had a series of requirements that disenfranchised most of the African Americans across the South.
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In 1966, a political organization founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seal to challenge police brutality against blacks.
