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The fourteenth amendment was put in place to show how who is a citizen of the United States.
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The fifteenth amendment was granted to let slaves vote.
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Congress passed a third Civil Rights Act because white business owners and merchants refused to make their facilities and establishments equally available to black people.
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The Supreme Court approved separate but equal segregation doctrine.
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded by a multi-racial group of activists in New York, N.Y. Initially, the group called themselves the National Negro Committee.
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The first KKK march on washington D.C.
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President Truman issued an order outlawing segregation in the U.S. military.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat at the front of the colored section of a bus in Montgomery, Ala., to a white passenger, defying a southern custom of the time.
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Four black university students from N.C. A&T University began a sit-in at a segregated F.W. Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C
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President Kennedy issued prohibiting discrimination in federal government hiring on the basis of race, religion or national origin and establishing The President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity
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James Meredith was first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. President Kennedy sent 5,000 federal troops to contain the violence and riots.
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Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is killed by a sniper's bullet.
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more than 250,000 people joined to hear Martin Luther King Jr speech.
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A church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama killing four black girls
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On this day the civil rights act which out lawed dicrimination towards race and ethnicity and women.
