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The Supreme Court decides that whites and blacks should be seperate but equal. But it was never very equal for the blacks.
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Emmet Till was visiting family in Mississippi when he was kidnaped, brutaly beaten and dumped in the Tallahatchie River for whistling at a white girl.
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(goes all the way until febuary) The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is made and Martin Luther King is the first president. It was to promote nonviolence.
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Several black students takea bus trip through the South to test out new laws. But they are mobbed on the way.
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James Meredith is the first black person to be accepted into the college of Mississippi.
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Martin Luther King reads his famous "I have a dream" speech at the Lincoln memorial.
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President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Congress passes the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This helped blacks be able to vote easier.
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Martin Luther King dies by being shot outside on his balconly of his hotel at the young age of 39.
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President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing
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President Bush signs the civil rights act of 1991.
