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It made it legal to segregate under the rule that they are "Sperate, but equal."
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They were the all-black fighter pilot group that fought in World War II
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Jackie Robinson became the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball.
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President Truman signed Executive Order 9981 which allowed the hiring of African-American soldiers.
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This series of lawsuits resulted in the Supreme Court ruling that states' segregation laws were unconstitutional.
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On August 28, 1955, while visiting family in Money, Mississippi, Emmett Till was brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier.
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Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested and fined for refusing to yield her bus seat to a white man. Four years later, a large number of protesters boycotted buses and car pooled to get to where they need to go.
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The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas.
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On September 9th, 1957, President Eisenhower signed the Civil RIght Act of 1957, which established the Civil Rights Division in the Justice Department and empowered federal officials to prosecute individuals that conspired to deny or abridge another citizen's right to vote.
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The Greensboro sit-in was a civil rights protest that started in 1960, when young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service. The sit-in movement soon spread to college towns throughout the South.
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The bus passengers assaulted that day were Freedom Riders, among the first of more than 400 volunteers who traveled throughout the South on regularly scheduled buses for seven months in 1961 to test a 1960 Supreme Court decision that declared segregated facilities for interstate passengers illegal.
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On August 27th, 1962, President Johnson signed the Twenty-fourth Amendment which prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.
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On September 30, 1962, riots erupted on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford where locals, students, and committed segregationists had gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran attempting to integrate the all-white school.
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On June 11, the University of Alabama was integrated by the admission of two Negroes to summer school. With U.S. troops escorting the African American students, and State police on hand to preserve order, Alabama's integration was accomplished without violence. Race violence, however, erupted at other places in the nation.
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When thousands of protesters gathered in the District of Colombia for civil rights.
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When Kennedy was assassinated, the world kept on fighting for civil rights.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing.
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During an event, Malcolm X was shot repeatedly and died in hospital care.
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The marches were organized by nonviolent activists to demonstrate the desire of African American citizens to exercise their constitutional right to vote, in defiance of segregationist repression. They were part of a broader voting rights movement underway in Selma and throughout the American South.
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This act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.
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His assassination led to an outpouring of anger among Black Americans, as well as a period of national mourning that helped speed the way for an equal housing bill that would be the last significant legislative achievement of the civil rights era.
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Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
