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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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Breaks color barrier by being the first black to play major league baseball
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President Harry S. Truman issued an executive order integrating the U.S. armed forces
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The U.S. Supreme Court unanimous decision that overturned the "seperate but equal" doctrine in public schools.
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Emmett Till was murdered in Money, Mississippi.
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Rosa parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery City Bus and was arrested.
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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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Freedom riders begin a bus ride through the South to protest segregation
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5000 federal troops were sent by Kennedy to allow Meredith to register for classes and resulted in riots
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4 black girls are killed by a bomb that was planted in a church.
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MLK Jr. was arrested in Birmingham protesting in the "most segregated" city in America.
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Was shot and killed outside of his home the same night that president Kennedy addresses the nation on race
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Kennedy sends National Guard to the University of Alabama to help after the governor stood in a doorway to block two black students from registering.
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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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Civil rights workers seek to register blacks to vote and result in buildings being burned and people being killed.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the premier legislation for Civil Rights into law.
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He was killed by black opponents after he left the Black Muslims.
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Los Angeles black suburbs erupts in riots, burning, looting, and 34 deaths
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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 into law outlawing literacy tests.
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Huey Newton & Bobby Seale founded the "Black Power" political group known as the Black Panthers.
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MLK Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis
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President Johnson signs the Fair Housing Act, providing equal housing opportunities regardless of race, religion, or national origin.
