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a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.
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Jackie Robinson plays his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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It abolished discrimination "on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin" in the United States Armed Forces. The
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A U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson. The
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A landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.
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A civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating.
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¨Little Rock Nine¨
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. -
The first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
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Were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions.
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The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in February to July 1960
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Prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax
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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.
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A federal district court in Alabama ordered the University of Alabama to admit African American students Vivian Malone and James Hood during its summer session.
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The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans.
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Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, TX
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A landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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Audubon Ballroom
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The marches were organized by nonviolent activists to demonstrate the desire of African-American citizens to exercise their constitutional right to vote, in defiance of segregationist repression; they were part of a broader voting rights movement underway in Selma and throughout the American South.
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A landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
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Memphis, TN
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Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 bars sex discrimination in education programs and activities offered by entities receiving federal financial assistance.
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Sandra Day O'Connor
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The inauguration, which set a record attendance for any event held in Washington, D.C., marked the commencement of the first term of Barack Obama as President and Joe Biden as Vice President.
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In a historic transformation of the American military, Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter said on Thursday that the Pentagon would open all combat jobs to women.
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was chosen as the party's nominee for president by a 54% majority of delegates present at the convention roll call, defeating primary rival Senator Bernie Sanders, who received 46% of votes from delegates, and becoming the first female candidate to be formally nominated for president by a major political party in the United States.
