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Case from Kansas that ended segregation in public schools. They argued that segregation violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. -
Rosa Parks was an african american woman who was arrested for not giving up her seat on a bus for a white person. the Montgomery Bus Boycott was a movement where african americans refused to use the city buses. -
Emmett Till was a 14 year-old boy who was beaten and murdered for talking to a white woman. His death angered both african americans and white people. -
Integration in public schools allowed by the Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board. The Little Rock Nine were nine african american students chosen to be the first to attend an all white school in Little Rock. The towns governor tried to keep them out of the school but failed in the end. -
A group of college age african americans would sit in at all white lunch counters as a form of peaceful protest against segregation. -
Participants would ride buses through the south to protest and challenge segregation. They often faced harsh opposition and their buses were set on fire. -
The Letter from Birmingham Jail was a letter written Martin Luther King Jr. that said people have a moral responsibility to take action against segregation instead of waiting around. -
The March on Washing for Jobs and Freedom was an event that challenged inequality in race. Around 250,000 people gathered together in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. -
16th Street Baptist Church was bombed by members of the Ku Klux Klan. The attack was motivated by racism and killed four young girls. -
The 24th Amendment prohibits any poll tax in elections for federal officials. -
This act prohibits discrimination based on color, religion, race, sex, or origin. -
Civil rights advocates marched out of Selma. Seventeen people were hospitalized and many more injured when the march was broken up by police officers. John Lewis, who led the march, suffered a fractured skull. -
This act outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War. -
A landmark case in which the Supreme Court decided that the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits governments from banning interracial marriage.