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Confederate veterans who had a vendetta against blacks meet and form the most well-known, most notorious hate group in American history.
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The U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the racist policy of segregation by legalizing “separate but equal” facilities for blacks and whites.
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People played a key role in the Civil Rights movement.
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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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Freedom riders begin a bus ride through the South to protest segregation.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham protesting in the “most segregated city in America.”
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Mississippi's field secretary for the NAACP gunned down in his driveway, found by his wife.
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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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Four young girls killed by the explosion while preparing for church service.
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While in Dallas, Texas, JFK was shot by gunman Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK was pushing for a Civil Rights act but never got to push it.
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After the death of Kennedy, Johnson stated that he wanted to continue Kennedy's legacy by passing the Civil Rights Act.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the premier legislation for Civil Rights into law.
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While preparing to deliver a speech, Malcolm X was shot 21 times by the Nation of Islam. He died shortly after.
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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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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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Several KKK members killed a Mobile resident named Michael Donald in 1981. His throat was slit and his body was hung from a tree in a prominently black neighborhood.
