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Barbara Johns leads a walkout at her high school in Farmville, Virginia, protesting the school's poor conditions.
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Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy, was brutally murdered after being falsely accused of whistling at a white woman in Money, Mississippi. His body and face were barely recognizable when police found him.
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A group of 12 African-American students, the Clinton 12, attended the first integrated public school in the South, Clinton High School.
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In Little Rock, Arkansas, nine African-American high school students are blocked from entering the public school, Central High School, by the Arkansas National Gaurd. The nine students were then escorted into and around the school by the U.S. Army after they were blocked out. The students were Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Patillo, Gloria Ray, Terrence Roberts, Jefferson Thomas, and Carlotta Walls.
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In Greensboro, North Carolina, four African-American students at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter refused to leave after being denied service from the employees.
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Ruby Bridges, a six-year-old, became the first African-American student to attend William Frantz Elementary in New Orleans, Louisiana. She and five other children had passed an exam to see if they could attend a better education at an all-white school after the US made the State of Louisiana desegregate. Ruby ended up being the only one to attend William Frantz Elementary When entering the school there were crowds of angry white parents and others yelling at her trying to protest her attendance.
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The bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church ended in the death of four young girls and others were seriously injured before a Sunday service.
