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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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The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) believed that nonviolent civil disobedience could also be used by African-Americans to challenge racial segregation in the United States. Founded in 1942
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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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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 SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) was formed when 60 black ministers met to try and recreate the bus boycott.
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Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957 to help protect voter rights.
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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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The state of Mississippi rallied against a federal court's decision to allow one black man to attend an all white school.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham protesting in the “most segregated city in America.”
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Governor George C. Wallace blocks two black students from registering to the University of Alabama. Then JFK sent the National Guard to the campus.
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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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A bomb at a church in Birmingham, Alabama kills four girls and injures several people after the Sunday services.
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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 Manhattan, New York.
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A march from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights begins.
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This march went down in history as Bloody Sunday for the violent beatings state troopers inflicted on protesters as they attempted to march peacefully from Selma to Montgomery.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law outlawing literacy tests.
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Huey Newton & Bobby Seale founded the “Black Power” political group known as the Black Panthers.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis.
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President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968 providing equal housing opportunity regardless race, religion, or national origin.
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James Earl Ray assassinated MLK on April 4th, 1968. He died April 23, 1998.
