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Brown vs. Board of Education
A landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. -
Emmett Till Murder
while visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier. -
Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. Parks' arrest on December 1, 1955 launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott by 17,000 black citizens. -
The Little Rock Nine and Integration
The "Little Rock Nine," as the nine teens came to be known, were to be the first African American students to enter Little Rock's Central High School -
Greensboro Woolworth's Sit-ins
four friends sat down at a lunch counter in Greensboro. These four people were African American, and they sat where African Americans weren't allowed to sit. They did this to take a stand against segregation. -
Freedom Rides
a series of political protests against segregation by Blacks and whites who rode buses together through the American South. -
MLK’s Letter From Birmingham Jail
The purpose of this letter was to defend his position for nonviolent direct action and with the use of rhetorical appeal allows the reader to agree. -
March on Washington
a mass demonstration to spotlight economic inequalities and press for a new federal jobs program and a higher minimum wage, the goals of the march expanded to include calls for congressional passage of the Civil Rights Act, full integration of public schools, and enactment of a bill prohibiting ... -
Birmingham Baptist Church Bombing
he Ku Klux Klan bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls. -
24th Amendment
the United States ratified the 24th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
“Bloody Sunday”/Selma to Montgomery March
around 600 people crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in an attempt to begin the Selma to Montgomery march. State troopers violently attacked the peaceful demonstrators in an attempt to stop the march for voting rights. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. -
Loving v. Virginia
the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously (9–0) struck down state anti miscegenation statutes in Virginia as unconstitutional under the equal protection and due process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.