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The case started on this day which lead to the approval of "equal but separate"
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Reverend Oliver Brown sued the state so his daughter would have the right to go to a white neighborhood school. Two other cases like this were there which joined together for one case called Brown vs. Board of Education. The case was fought by Thurgood Marshall for NAACP. Ruling was in favor of Brown and one year later school segregation was ended.
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Rosa Parks' arrest sparked the fuels of a bus boycott which lead to equality in some manners.
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Integration began with the Little Rock Nine who courageously entered a school full of discrimination and hate on this day.
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Woolworths lost 1/3 of its business and desegregated all of it's restaurants (nationally) on July 26, 1960. Black employees were the 1st to be served
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On this day the childrens marches began. The members of this march were mainly children because the adults were in jail. This day examplifies the determination and the will of the African American activists to achieve their goal.
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Marches in Washington that pressured Congress to pass a long overdue powerful Civil Rights bill that would help end discrimination when getting jobs.
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After turmoil in Birmingham tensions rose more when a church bombing occurred killing 4 young African American girls.
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This act was enacted on this day to give African Americans more equal and fair rights.
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This day this act was signed. It gave African Americans voting rights. This act was also helped into action by the President who sent federal examiners to make sure it was in place.
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Martin Luther King was assasinated on this day. His legacy remains as one of the most influential civil rights activists. He was key to the previous occurrences.
