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Abraham Lincoln frees American slaves in the South
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(KKK) Tennesse is formed to fight against rights for African American.
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Court decides having seperate facilities for white and black people is illegal
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National Assosciation for the Advancement of Coloured People is founded to fight racist discrimination.
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Court says having seperate schools for black and white students is not legal
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An African-American boy, aged 14, is killed for 'wolf whistling' at a white woman. His murderers are identified but go free.
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Rosa Parks starts the boycott when she refuses to give up her bus seat for a white man.
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Were civil rights activist 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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In the summer of 1964, forty-one Freedom Schools opened in the churches, on the back porches, and under the trees of Mississippi
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This march went down in history as Bloody Sunday for the violent beatings state troopers inflicted on protesters as they attempted to march peacefully from Selma Alabama, to the state capital Montgomery
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President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to prevent the use of literacy tests as a voting requirement. It also allowed federal examiners to review voter qualifications and federal observers to monitor polling places.
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President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, also known as the Fair Housing Act, providing equal housing opportunity regardless of race, religion or national origin.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated on the balcony of his hotel room in Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray is convicted of the murder in 1969.
