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The Supreme Court rules that segregation is unconstitutional, this will overrule the Plessy v Ferguson, which invented the phrase "separate but equal" -
Black people boycott riding the buses in Montgomery. This happens for about a year and was started because Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus.
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Freedom Riders were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, which were bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals. -
The March on Washington was a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. This was also where MLK told his famous speech, "I Have a Dream". This was to spread awareness of the oppression of black people. -
At 6:05 P.M. on Thursday, April 4 1968, Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on the balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. News of King’s assassination caused major outbreaks of racial violence, resulting in more than 40 deaths nationwide and in over 100 American cities.