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A 14 year old boy who was visiting relatives down south after a white woman said she was offended by him.
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A protest against segregation on public buses.
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A group that called themselves Little Rock 9, African-American students, who enrolled in Little Rock high school in 1957
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A six year-old child, Ruby Bridges, entered an all white school in an attempt to end segregation.
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Sit-ins to protest inequality of lunch counters by not allowing African-Americans to sit at them.
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Activists that rode on buses into segregated town, southern mainly.
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He became the first African-American student to enroll at the University Mississippi.
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A letter that MLK Jr. wrote addressing preachers and priests, because they had an abundance of power of the people, telling them to stand up and demand their rights.
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John F. Kennedy ordered National guard troops to go and force the desegregation of the University of Alabama.
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He was shot in the driveway just outside his home by a white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith.
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This event was massive. About 250,000 people marched to the Lincoln Memorial statue in Washington D.C. Some know it as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. This event was mostly about equality for everyone.
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A bombing that occurred on a Sunday morning during Sunday school. The bombing ended up in the downstairs girl's bathroom and resulted in the deaths of four little girls, leaving a fifth one blind for the rest of her life.
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An attempt in Mississippi to register as many African-Americans voters a possible.
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In January of 1964 on the 23rd the fee for voting known as Poll Tax was prohibited and the 24th amendment was added to the U.S. Constitution.
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Multiple acts in order to end ALL segregation against race, color, religion, gender, etc.
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MLK Jr. wins the Nobel Peace Prize and was the youngest ever at the age of thirty-five.
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A 54-mile march from Selma to the capital of Montgomery where the protesters were met with bloody violence from the local authorities and white vigilante groups.
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This law prohibits racial discrimination when voting.
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A riot which lasted five days and left 34 victims dead, and more than a thousand injured. Along with injuries, $40 million worth of property was destroyed.
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Was the Court's 96th justice and the first African-American justice.
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MLK Jr. was shot to death in Memphis in his motel room at the Lorraine Motel by James Earl Ray.
