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Racial Segregation laws for public facilities it came to be known as "separate but equal".
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional.
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The Baton Rouge bus boycott was a boycott of city buses launched on June 19, 1953 by African-American residents of Baton Rouge, Louisiana who were seeking integration of the system.
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Schools were desegregated & Nine African American students who integrated to a predominantly white school called Little Rock Central High School .
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The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. It was a seminal event in the civil rights movement.
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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was the principal channel of student commitment in the United States to the Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s.
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The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in February to July 1960, primarily in the Woolworth store.
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This movement was founded by local black leaders and ministers, as well as members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States.
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was a movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans
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The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, also known as the March on Washington or The Great March on Washington.
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prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin
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The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery.
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The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery.
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting
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referred to as the Watts Rebellion or Watts Uprising, took place in the Watts neighborhood and its surrounding areas of Los Angeles
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originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was a Black Power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, California
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officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held from 12 to 27 October 1968 in Mexico City, Mexico. 2 black men were stripped their metals because they stuck their fist up in the air.
