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Brown vs. Board of Education
This event is one of the most significant trials in U.S history. This supreme court case ended segregation in the classroom. -
Man Murdered For Whisteling
On August 28, a 14-year-old African-American boy, Emmett Till, from Chicago, is murdered near Money, Mississippi, because he allegedly whistled at a white woman. -
Rosa Parks Refuses To Sit In Back of Bus
One of the most famous people to come out for the Civil Rights Movement, Rosa Parks was a key factor in Montgomery Bus Boycott. -
Murdering 4 Black Men
The first two months of the year, whites are angry about the Montgomery Bus Boycott, this anger results in the bombing of 4 African-American churches as well as the homes of civil rights leaders and E.D. Nixon and Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 is passed by Congress. This act creates the Civil Rights Commission and also authorizes the Justice Department to look into cases of African Americans being deprived of their voting rights in the South. -
Desegregation at Little Rock
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine black high school students who enrolled in Little Rock, Kansas. They were the first black people to graduate college. -
Greensboro Sit-ins
On February 1, four African-American men who were students at North Carolina Agriculture and Technical College, visit Woolworth in Greensboro, North Carolina, where they sit down at a whites-only lunch counter to order coffee. Although they are denied service, the four men sit politely and silently at the counter until the store closes. This starts the series of Greensboro sit-ins and also triggers similar protests in the South. -
Arrested
On May 17, another group of young activists join the original Freedom Riders to finish the trip, where they are ultimately under arrest in Montgomery, Alabama. -
Freedom Riders
On May 14, the Freedom Riders who two separate groups, are attacked outside Birmingham, Alabama and Anniston, Alabama. A mob throws a firebomb into the Anniston bus. In Birmingham, members of the Ku Klux Klan attack the bus after making earlier arrangements with local law enforcement to have 15 minutes alone with the bus. -
Mississippi Riot
James H. Meredith was a crucial figure in the American Civil Rights Movement, by having a federal court approve the case to attend an all white school in Mississippi. -
Birmingham
Martin Luther King JR. mobilized hundreds of school children to demonstrate against segregation. -
March on Washington
250,000 people attended March on Washington. Both black and white people gathered together to witness. At March On Washington Martin Luther King gave his iconic speech "I Have a Dream". -
Martin Luther King Jr. Arrested
On April 12, the Birmingham police arrest Martin Luther King, Jr. for demonstrating in the city without a city permit. -
Selma
The Selma to Montgomery march was part of a series of civil-rights protests that occurred in 1965 In Alabama. It urged an effect to register black voters in the South. -
Civil Rights Movement in Florida
The Civil Rights Movement in Florida. The Civil Rights Movement shaped the 20th century culture and laws of the United States. The former slave states of the South in particular were battlegrounds in the fight to end discrimination against African-Americans. Florida and its citizens were prominent in that struggle.
