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1954 Supreme Court Case ruled that racial segregation of children in public schools were unconstitutional. This helped create a precedent, a "separate but equal" education -
Rosa parks refused to give up her sit to a white man in Alabama. Her refusal prompted a year-long Montgomery bus boycott -
A group of 9 African American students that took attendance at the Brown v. Board of Education to fight for their education -
African American college students sat at a lunch counter at Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina where they refused to leave -
6 year-old African American little girl was escorted by 4 armed federal marshalls as she became the first student to integrate William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans -
Teams of African Americans and Caucasians volunteered to travel into the South to draw to the refusal to integrate bus terminals -
More than 200,000 demonstrators of all races flocked to the nation's capital. The audience heard speeches, hymn's, and songs as they gathered at the Lincoln Memorial. Dr. Martin Luther King held a speech there as well -
President Lyndon Johnson, signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that banned discrimination in employment based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin -
The entire registration was put under federal control, due to the police attacking voters trying to vote -
In Selma, about 600 civil rights marchers walked to Selma, Alabama to Montgomery to protest black voter suppression, where they were brutally attacked by local police afterwards -
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by firearm by James Earl Ray in Memphis Tennessee