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This landmark Supreme Court decision holds that racial segregation is constitutional as there is not law demanding social equality.
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The 1947 case also led to the desegregation of public schools across California, where state law had required separate schooling for Asian and Native American children.
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The Supreme Court rules on the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, unanimously agreeing that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.
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Four days after he reportedly flirted with a white cashier at a grocery store.Two white men kidnapped Till, beat him and shot him in the head. The men were tried for murder, but an all-white, male jury acquitted them.
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Rosa Parks sparks the boycott by refusing to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. She was arrested and fined.It began after Parks court hearing and lasted 381 days
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Nine black students, who became known as the "Little Rock Nine" are blocked from entering the school on the orders of the governor of Arkansas.
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While not the first sit-ins of the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the Greensboro sit-ins were an instrumental action, leading to increased national sentiment at a crucial period in US history.
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Civil rights activists known as "Freedom Riders" rode interstate buses into the segregated South in order to protest a variety of civil rights violations.
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The M.L.K. speech was aone of the most motaving speeches that inspired people to stand up against rasiem.
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It was when more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
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Citizens had to pay a fee to vote in a national election. On January 23, 1964, the United States ratified the 24th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials.
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It was the was a 1964 voter registration project in Mississippi, part of a larger effort by civil rights groups such as the CORE and the SNCC to expand black voting in the South.
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The Civil Righs Act is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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Bloody Sunday was were a bunch of black americans that were marching for freedom and it was lead by M.L.K.
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It was singed by President Lyndon Johnson to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote.
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It established requirements for non-discriminatory practices in hiring and employment on the part of U.S. government contractors.
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It was a practiced militant self-defense of minority communities against the U.S. government, and fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community based programs.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and mortally wounded as he stood on the second-floor balcony outside his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1968 defines housing discrimination as the refusal to sell or rent a dwelling to any person because of his race, color, religion, or national origin.
