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Brown v. Board of Education was when the Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional. -
A fourteen year old boy named Emmett Louis Till was kidnapped and killed by two men for allegedly harassing a woman that was working their.
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The Montgomery bus boycott was a social protest against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery Alabama.
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The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine african american students enrolled at Little Rock Central High in 1957
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The Greensboro Woolworth's Sit-ins was when young African American students had a sit-in in a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro and refused to leave after being denied service.
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Freedom Rides was a group of whites and african american protesters joined in a bus trip in South America.
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The letter was written by Martin Luther King Jr when he was in Birmingham Jail
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The March on Washington was the largest demonstration for human rights in United States history. It was also where Martin Luther King made his we the people speech.
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The Birmingham Baptist Church Bombing was when the KKK members bombed Birmingham Baptist Church and took the lives of four people.
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Prohibits any poll tax in elections for federal officials.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, gender or national origin.
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County possemen and state troopers attacked unarmed marchers with clubs and tear gas after they passed over the county line.
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The United states outlawed the biased voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. -
Loving v Virginia was an unanimous Court struck down state laws banning marriage between people of different races.