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Supreme court ruling of "separate but equal," making segragation constatutional according to the U.S. government.
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was a bi-racial group for civil rights.
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Landmark U.S. Supreme Court case where it was declared state laws of segragation in schools unconsitutional.
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Protest of segregation in the bus system in Montgomery, Alabama. Events like these happened many times.
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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was a black civil rights organization, with its first president being Martin Luther King Jr.
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The first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
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Nine black girls known more commonly as "Little Rock Nine" enrolled and entered a prestigous school of 2,000 white students.
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Series of nonviolent sit-ins to protest segregation in restaurants, and lead to the lift of racial segration in the south.
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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was a major civil right organization which focused on pacifism.
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Supreme Court lifted charges of a black man in a segregated restaurant in Virginia.
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He was a chosen leader after being converted to Islam and didn't agree with Martin Luther King Jr.'s advocation of nonviolence.
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Civil rights activists rode buses to segregated parts in the South to protest the nonenforcment of Supreme Court rulings against segregation.
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Black student, James Meredith, is first to integrate with the white college of Ole Miss, resulting in many riots.
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Organized by the SCLC to bring attention to the anti-segragation against
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Ended with the famous speech from Martin Luther King Jr. "I Have a Dream."
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Got rid of poll taxes and are unable to deny someone the right to vote if they can't pay.
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Attempt to get more black voters.
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Landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws ANY kind of discrimination.
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Malcolm X was shot before he was about to deliver a speech about his new organization called the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
