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It was one of the cornerstones of the civil rights movement and helped establish "separate but equal" education.
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Fourteen year old Emmett Till was murdered and kidnapped in Money, Mississippi.
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Local authorities in Montgomery, Alabama, arrested Rosa Parks, when she refused to vacate her seat in the white section of a city bus.
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Governor Orval Faubus mobilized the Arkansas National Guard in an effort to prevent nine African American students from integrating the high school.
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Fifty sticks of dynamite exploded in a recessed entranceway at the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation, Atlanta's oldest and most prominent synagogue, more commonly known as "the Temple."
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Four North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College students entered the F. W. Woolworth Co. department store in Greensboro, North Carolina and staged a sit-in at the store's segregated lunch counter.
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Residents of Albany, Georgia, launched an ambitious campaign to eliminate segregation in all facets of local life.
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Riots erupted on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford where locals, students, and committed segregationists had gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran attempting to integrate the all-white school.
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John F. Kennedy was assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in a presidential motorcade.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated by a sniper's bullet while standing on the second-floor balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
