-
A decision in the Supreme Court upholding the contstitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation under the doctrine od "separate but equal."
-
A decision in the Supreme Court which ruled that racial segregation in public schools violated the 14th Amendment and that separate educational facilities were inherently unequal.
-
The moral justification for the Civil Rights movement which began when an African-American boy, Emmett Till, was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after flirting with a white woman.
-
The campaign that began when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.
-
A group of African-American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School who were originally prevented from entering the racially segregated school by the governor of Arkansas.
-
A voting rights bill for all Americans that was the first civil rights legislation enacted by Congress in the United States.
-
Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.
-
The first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
-
The assassination of the 35th President of the United States taking place in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas.
-
The Amendment to the United States Constitution that prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.
-
A piece of civil rights legislation that outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and also woman.
-
The assassination of the Malcolm X taking place in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom.
-
The marches and protests that marked the political and emotional peak of the American Civil Rights Movement.
-
A piece of national legislation in the United States that outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the United States.
-
The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. taking place at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
-
A piece of legislation in the United States that provided for equal housing opportunities regardless of race, creed, or national origin.
-
The assassination of Robert Kennedy taking place at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California.
