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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 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 Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
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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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Freedom riders begin a bus ride through the South to protest segregation.
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Court case that rules against segregation in interstate and intrastate transportation.
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Students rioted at the University of Oxford to protest the integration of a black student named James Meredith.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham protesting in the “most segregated city in America.”
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The university of Alabama integrated two Black students into the school: Vivien Malone, and James Hood.
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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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John F. Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswalt at the Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. This created complications for Martin Luther King Jr., who had a good relationship with JFK.
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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 at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights.
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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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In a championship basketball team against and all white team, the Texas Western Miners defeated Kentucky and eliminated segregation in sports and helping defeat it altogether.
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Huey Newton & Bobby Seale founded the “Black Power” political group known as the Black Panthers.
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The Loving vs. Virginia case strikes down laws banning interracial marriage.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis.
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Court case that banned racial segregation in the sale of rental property.
