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Brown vs. Board of Education
In Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. The 1954 decision declared that separate educational facilities for white and African American students were inherently unequal. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. -
Desegregation at Little Rock
the Little Rock Nine enrolled at Little Rock Central High School, which until then had been all white. The students' effort to enroll was supported by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education -
sit-in Campaing
The Greensboro sit-in was a civil rights protest that started in 1960, when young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service. -
Freedom rides
The 1961 Freedom Rides sought to test a 1960 decision by the Supreme Court in Boynton v. Virginia that segregation of interstate transportation facilities, including bus terminals, was unconstitutional as well. -
Mississippi Riot
Southern segregationists rioted and fought state and federal forces on the campus of the University of Mississippi, to prevent the first registration of the first African American. -
Birmingham
Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama, it was founded in 1871 by a land company backed by railroad officials. -
March on Washington
With an estimated attendance of 250,000, this was truly a historic event for the civil rights movement. Blacks and whites gathered to watch Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his historic "I Have a Dream" speech. -
Freedom Summer
Freedom summer was a 1964 voter registration drive intended to increase the number of registered black voters in Mississippi, More than 700 volunteers, mostly white, joined African Americans in Mississippi to fight voter intimidation and discrimination at the polls. -
Selma
The demonstration march from Selma to Montgomery was nicknamed "Bloody Sunday" due to the brutality and violence troops used against the peaceful demonstrators, Over 600 people partook in the March from Selma.