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Selma to Montgomery March:Bloody Sunday
police and a citizen “posse” attacked marchers attempting to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, United States, an event that galvanized the Civil Rights Movement as “Bloody Sunday.” -
The Supreme Court Decision of Plessy v. Fergunson
Ferguson ruled that separate-but-equal facilities were constitutional.The ruling provided legal justification for segregation on trains and buses, and in public facilities such as hotels, theaters, and schools. -
The tuskegee Air man
The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of African American military pilots and airmen who fought in World War II. first African American soldiers to successfully complete their training and enter the Army Air Corps . -
The Integration of major league Baseball
For nearly 60 years baseball was a segregated sport as the American and National Leagues that formed Major League Baseball unofficially banned African-Americans from their ranks.Jackie Robinson stepped onto the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947 -
Supreme court decision of Sweatt V. Painter
he Court held that the Equal Protection Clause required that Sweatt be admitted to the university. The Court found that the "law school for Negroes," which was to have opened in 1947, would have been grossly unequal to the University of Texas Law School. -
The Supreme Court Decision of Brown V. Board of Education
In this milestone decision, the Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional. -
Death of Emmitt Till
Emmett Till's death turned him into a symbol of America's racial injustice, inspiring many to promote equality for all. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. -
Integration of Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine became an integral part of the fight for equal opportunity in American education when they dared to challenge public school segregation by enrolling at the all-white Central High School in 1957. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
The new act established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote. -
Greensboro Four Lunch Counter Sit-in
The Greensboro sit-in was a civil rights protest that started in 1960, when young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service. -
Freedom Rides by Freedom Riders of 1961
Freedom Riders were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals. -
Twenty Fourth Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax. -
Integration of the University of Mississippi
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 -
Integration of the University of Alabama
federal district court in Alabama ordered the University of Alabama to admit African American students Vivien Malone and James Hood during its summer session. -
March on Washington and I have a Dream Speech by MLK
A call for equality and freedom, it became one of the defining moments of the civil rights movement and one of the most iconic speeches in American history. -
Assassination of John F Kennedy in Dallas Texas
President Lyndon Johnson helped secure passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act, partially as a tribute to Kennedy. -
Assassination of Malcom X
A spokesman for the Nation of Islam until 1964, he was a vocal advocate for Black empowerment and the promotion of Islam within the Black community. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964 signed by President Johnson
prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal. -
Voting Rights Act Of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. -
Assassination of MLK
Black Americans were devastated, pained, and angered. Violence erupted in more than 125 American cities across 29 states. Nearly 50,000 federal troops occupied America's urban areas. Thirty-nine people were killed and 3,500 injured. -
Voting right Act of 1968
The 1968 act expanded on previous acts and prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin.