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The U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the racist policy of segregation by legalizing “separate but equal” facilities for blacks and whites.
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NAACP Organization was founded by Civil Rights activist - W.E.B Dubois
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A. Philip Randolph called for the March on Washington to be on this day. But was later cancelled when FDR issued Executive Order 8802 which ended segregation in government employment.
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President Truman issues Executive Order 9981 to end segregation in the Armed Forces.
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The U.S. Supreme Court unanimous decision that overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine in public schools.
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Emmett Till was murdered in Money, Mississippi.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery City Bus and was arrested.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott begins.
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President Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1957 to protect voter rights.
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The Little Rock 9 enter Central High School as federal troops oversee the situation sent by President Eisenhower.
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4 black college students sat at an all-white lunch counter and started a sit-in protest at a Woolworth’s store.
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Rub Bridges is the 1st colored student to integrate an all white grade school.
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Freedom riders begin a bus ride through the South to protest segregation.
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For the first time, a colored student by the name James Meredith, is admitted into University of Mississippi. The school is the first to be integrated.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham protesting in the “most segregated city in America.”
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More than 250,000 people, march on Washington to demand immediate passage of the civil rights bill.
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KKK planted dynamite in church stairwell and when it exploded, 4 young girls were killed.
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John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the premier legislation for Civil Rights into law.
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Malcolm X is assassinated by the Nation of Islam, during a rally.
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A march from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights begins.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law outlawing literacy tests.
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Huey Newton & Bobby Seale founded the “Black Power” political group known as the Black Panthers.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis.
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President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Fair Housing Act), equal housing opportunity regardless of race, religion, or national origin.
