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State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. -
A political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. -
Established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote. -
The students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. -
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. -
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, a black Air Force veteran attempting to integrate the all-white school. -
A march by over 1,000 school students in Birmingham, Alabama on May 2–3, 1963. Initiated and organized by Rev. James Bevel, the purpose of the march was to walk downtown to talk to the mayor about segregation in their city. -
Alabama Governor George Wallace stood in front of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama on June 11, 1963, to stop the enrollment of African-American students Vivan Malone and James Hood. -
King called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States. -
A white supremacist terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. -
Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing. -
It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. -
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously (9–0) struck down state anti-miscegenation statutes in Virginia as unconstitutional under the equal protection and due process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. -
An African-American clergyman and civil rights leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. -
An Executive Order intended to extend powers and responsibilities of U.S. intelligence agencies and direct the leaders of U.S. federal agencies to co-operate fully with CIA requests for information.