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The U.S. Supreme Court unanimous decision that overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine in public schools.
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1 million African Americans served in the armed forces and new opportunities were created.
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The first African American baseball player
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The U.S. Supreme Court unanimous decision that overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine in public schools.
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Emmett Till was murdered in Money, Mississippi
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery City Bus and was arrested.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott begins.
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The Little Rock 9 enter Central High School as federal troops oversee the situation sent by President Eisenhower.
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4 black college students sat at an all-white lunch counter and started a sit-in protest at a Woolworth’s store.
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First African american child to integrate into an elementary school.
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Freedom riders begin a bus ride through the South to protest segregation.
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First African American student at the University of Mississippi. Shot in Memphis and survived.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham protesting in the “most segregated city in America.”
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Civil Right activist and former secretary of NAACP. Shot and killed in his own driveway.
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More than 250,000 people, march on Washington to demand immediate passage of the civil rights bill.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the premier legislation for Civil Rights into law
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Malcolm X thought of the idea of human rights and was murdered in the Audobon Ballroom
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A march from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights begins.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law outlawing literacy tests.
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Texas Western upsets Kentucky as underdogs with a score of 72-65. The first time an all black starting 5 was used.
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Huey Newton & Bobby Seale founded the “Black Power” political group known as the Black Panthers.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis.
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Robert F. Kennedy was killed by Sirhan Sirhan. We was the peaceful voice throughout places like Indiana until his assassination.
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Tommy Smith and Jon Carlos show support at the Mexico Olympic Games.
