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The supreme court rules against school segragation overturning the decision from 1896 in Plessy V.S. Ferguson to segragate the schools. White parents still didnt want their children in nonsegragated schools.
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Rosa Parks a unknown seamstress is riding a public bus when she is asked to sit in the back. Parks refuses to get up and is arrested. Some historians say that was the start of the civil rights movement.
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The Supreme Court ruled that the Alabama bus segragation was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court effaced the laws upholding the segragated seating.
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Martin Luther King Jr. helps fouthe the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to work towards equality for african Americans
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Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a letter from the Birmingham Jail adressing the comments several white religious leaders had made about him work.
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On August 28th more that 200,000 people marched in Washington D.C. and Martin Luther gives his famous "I Have a Dream" speech during the biggest civil rights event in history.
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At 10:22 on a munday morning the Baptist Church on 16th street was bombed by several members of a Ku Klux Klan organization and four gils (ages 14,14,14 and 11) were killed. The bombers were only charged with being in possesion of 122 Sticks of Dynamite. The case was semingly forgotten untill it was reopened in 1977 when the bomber, Chambliss was aged 73 he was charged guity and sentanced to life prison.
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Martin Luther King Jr. wins the Nobel Peace Prize for "combating racial inequality."
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Malcom X the national minister of the Nation of Islam and champion of black pride is assasinated one year after splitting from Islam by a member of NOI.
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In the midst of the Selma-Montgomery march the Voting Rights act is passed, banning the practices in the south making it impossible for blacks to vote.
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description of the Black Panthers The Black Panthers is a group founded in Oakland California by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. The militant party was aimed at armed self defence against the local police.
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Thurgood Marshall was the fisrt African-American associate justice in the supreme court. He was involved in the case Brown V.S. The Board Of Education.
