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The Supreme Court ruled that legalized segregation was constitutional provided conditions were similar. This became known as "seperate but equal"
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The case decided to overthrow "seperate but equal"
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Emmett Till was kidnapped, beat and shot to death by white men.
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She refused to give up her seat for a white man in which got her arrested
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After Brown vs. Board of Education ruled segregated schools were illegal, many southern school districts were slow to responed to this new directive
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John F. Kennedy Was president in 1961
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A church in birmingham was bombed
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Martin luther king was in jail in birmingham
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Lyndon B. Johnson was president in 1964
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This banned discrimination
