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Plessy v. Ferguson, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal" -
The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of primarily African American military pilots and airmen who fought in World War II. -
Jackie Robinson integrated major league baseball in 1947, 60 years after it became segregated. -
Truman issued Executive Order 9981, which declared “that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin.” In short, it was an end to racial segregation in the military -
U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation -
establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality -
Emmett Louis Till was a 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, -
The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation -
when Governor Orval Faubus mobilized the Arkansas National Guard in an effort to prevent nine African American students from integrating the high school. -
the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote. -
Its success led to a wider sit-in movement, organized primarily by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), that spread throughout the South. -
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 -
This fee was called a poll tax. On January 23, 1964, the United States ratified the 24th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials. -
segregationists had gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran -
President John F. Kennedy federalized National Guard troops and deployed them to the University of Alabama to force its desegregation. -
The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. Plus where MLK had his "I had s Dream" speech. -
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while traveling through Dallas, Texas -
Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
Three members of the Nation of Islam were charged with the murder and given indeterminate life sentences, but, in November 2021, two of the men were exonerated -
The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery -
It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting -
Baptist minister and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee. -
prohibits discrimination concerning the sale, rental, or financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, and sex.