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The Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools based on the race was unconstitutional. It signaled the end of legalized racial segregation in the schools of the US. -
A Chicago native, Till was visiting relatives in Mississippi, when he was accused of harassing a white woman. Several days later, relatives of the woman kidnapped Till, brutally beating and killing him before disposing of his body in a nearby river. -
The Montgomery bus boycott was a mass protest against segregation on the city buses of Montgomery, Alabama. -
The Little Rock Nine was a group of African American high-school students who challenged racial segregation in the public schools of Little Rock -
The Greensboro sit-in was a civil rights protest. when African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, NC, and refused to leave after being denied service. -
The Freedom Rides were a form of a peaceful political protest during the civil rights movement. African American and whites challenged laws against segregation by traveling together on buses throughout the South. -
It says that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws and to take direct action rather than waiting potentially forever for justice to come through. He also said "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." -
a quarter of a million people rallied in Washington, D.C. to demand an end to segregation, fair wages and economic justice, voting rights, education, and long overdue civil rights protections -
A bomb exploded at a Baptist Church as church members prepared for Sunday services. The racially motivated attack killed four young girls and shocked the nation. -
it outlawed the poll tax as a voting requirement in federal elections -
This act outlawed segregation in businesses such as theaters, restaurants, and hotels. -
A police and a citizen attacked marchers attempting to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama an event that galvanized the Civil Rights Movement as Bloody Sunday. -
It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting
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A unanimous Court struck down state laws banning marriage between individuals of different races