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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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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States, as a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois.
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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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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery City Bus and was arrested.
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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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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee - an organization formed in 1960 to coordinate sit-ins and other protests and to give young blacks a larger role in the civil rights movement.
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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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Freedom riders begin a bus ride through the South to protest segregation.
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James Meredith, the first African-American student enrolled at University of Mississippi (with NAACP President Mississippi, Medgar Evers)
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Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham protesting in the “most segregated city in America.”
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Birmingham, Alabama is the most segregated city in the US. So king attempt the march which more than a thousand African-American children marched in Birmingham. Also hundreds of them got arrested as same as king.
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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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President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas,Texas
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SNCC and CORE tries to register African-American voters in Mississippi which this campaign would influenced congress to pass a voting rights act.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the premier legislation for Civil Rights into law.
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Malcom x, human right activist was shot and killed in New York, by members of Nation of Islam
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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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a law that prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin or sex. by President LBJ.
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Robert Kennedy ,or Bobby, killed in California. shot by Sirhan Sirhan
