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An interracial organization dedicated to advancing justice for African Americans -
Nine African American teenagers were riding on a freight train when two white women accused them of rape -
Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball, paving the way for other African American athletes and contributing to the Civil Rights Movement -
Brown v. Board of Education ended legal segregation in schools -
Two Mississippian killed Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy, for whistling at a white woman -
A protest against racial segregation on Montgomery, Alabama's public transit system, was initiated after Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a city bus -
Nine African American high school students who bravely integrated Little Rock Central High School faced intense resistance and harassment -
The first African American child to attend the formerly whites-only William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis -
A response to criticisms from white religious leaders who had criticized King's nonviolent civil disobedience tactics in the Birmingham Campaign
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Malcolm X was assassinated by three members of the Nation of Islam. The assassination was allegedly motivated by Malcolm X's break from the Nation of Islam and his criticism of its leader -
Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin -
A revolutionary organization with an ideology of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality -
Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, making him the first African American to serve on the Court. -
Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee -
Obama was the first African American president, the first multiracial president, and the first non-white president.