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The U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the racist policy of segregation by legalizing “separate but equal” facilities for blacks and whites
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President Harry Truman issues Executive Order 9981 to end segregation in the Armed Services.
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The U.S. Supreme Court unanimous decision that overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine in public schools
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murdered in Money, Mississippi.
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refused to give up her seat and was arrested
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference founded for civil and political rights.
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The Little Rock 9 enter Central High School as federal troops oversee the situation sent by President Eisenhower.
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4 black college students sat at an all-white lunch counter and started a sit-in protest at a Woolworth’s store.
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee founded at Shaw University in Raleigh, NC as one of the major American Civil Rights Movement organizations
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Freedom riders begin a bus ride through the South to protest segregation.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham protesting in the “most segregated city in America.”
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American civil rights activist Medgar Evans is assassinated in Jackson, MS
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More than 250,000 people, march on Washington to demand immediate passage of the civil rights bill.
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Bombing to occur at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the premier legislation for Civil Rights into law.
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Minister Malcolm X was assassinated in New York by members of Nation of Islam
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A march from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights begins.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act to outlaw literacy tests
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Riots begin in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles
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James Meredith, first African American to attend Ole Miss, is shot in Memphis
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Huey Newton & Bobby Seale founded the “Black Power” political group known as the Black Panthers.
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Bloodiest incident in the long hot summer of 1967, also known as the Detroit Rebellion.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis.
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Several Ku Klux Klan members beat and killed Michael Donald, a young African-American man, and hanged his body from a tree.
