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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution -
A political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. -
A group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Shortly After their enrollment the Little Rock Crisis happened which prevented the students from entering the racially segregated schools. -
Groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals -
A United States labor law amending the Fair Labor Standards Act, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex -
The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans such as equality for jobs and freedom. -
A white supremacist terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. 14-22 were injured while 4 girls were killed. -
Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
Were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. The purpose of the march was to ensure that African Americans could exercise their constitutional right to vote. -
Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.James Earl Ray was the person that assassinated MLK.