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Supreme court rules that segregation is public schools is unconstitutional
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African-Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, boycott city buses to support Rosa Parks, who was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man.
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower orders federal troops to escort nine black students safely to school
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Four college students in Greensboro, North Carolina, stage a "sit-in" demonstration at a department-store lunch counter to protest a whites-only service policy.
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Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his famous "I have a dream speech" in front of 250,000 Americans from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act.
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In Selma, Alabama. police use clubs, tear gas, water cannons, and dogs to stops marchers from protesting efforts to keeps blacks from voting
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Sworn the first African American Supreme Court Justice
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Martin Luther King Jr. plans and organizes a march to call attention to the problems but was killed before he could begin the march
