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In Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, Supreme Court rules unanimously against school segregation. -
Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus to a white person, triggering a successful, year of boycotting with the African Americans.
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Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. helps start the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to fight for equality. -
Four African American college students hold a sit-in to integrate a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, NC, launching another wave of protests across the south.
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Malcolm X becomes the national minister of the Nation of Islam. He rejects the nonviolent civil-rights movement integration. He became a champion of African American separatism and black pride -
In August, More than 200,000 people participated in the March on Washington, D.C, the largest civil rights demonstration ever. Martin Luther Jr. gives his, "I Have a Dream" speech.
In September four African American girls were killed in the bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
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President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act, giving the federal government far-reaching powers to prosecute discrimination in employment, voting, and education. -
Martin King Jr. organizes a protest march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama for African American voting rights. In the wake of the march the right was passed. -
Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African American justice on the Supreme Court -
PICTURE WARNING
Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, TN. His murder sparks a week of rioting across the United States.
