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The U.S. Supreme Court decided that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."
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People protest against the segregation of Montgomery buses, and against the arrest of Rosa Parks for refusing to leave her seat for a white man.
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The SCLC is founded following the Montgomery bus boycott. Martin Luther King Jr. invited around 60 black ministers to Ebenezer Church, where they discussed the foundation of such a group
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A sort of counterculture formed in the American society, typically associated with anti-establishment movements.
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Movement among the Latino-American population to fight for better treatment and overall more equality.
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Focused on removing inequality from the workplace, such as being denied higher-up jobs, as well as salary inequality.
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Civil rights activists that rode interstate buses into the south in 1961 as a challenge to the lack of enforcement of Morgan v. Virginia and Boynton v. Virginia.
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Movement to inspire African Americans to reach a certain level of "Black Power." Coincided with socialist movements.
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Outlawed discrimination based on one's sex, race, religion, or national origin, as well as ending unequal treatment in vote registration requirements.
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An African-American man pulled over out of suspicion of drunk driving had a fight with the officer that pulled him over. Eventually the community escalated into rioting and looting over accused police brutality.
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Martin Luther King Jr., a figurehead in the African American civil rights movement, was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
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The decision of the Roe v. Wade case decided that a woman had the right to get an abortion prior to the viability of the fetus.
