Rosa Parks refused to give up her sear on a Montgomery, Alabama, but to a white person,
The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the segregation of Montgomery, Alabama buses in unconstitutional.
Soldiers escort nine African American students to desegregate a school in Arkansas.
Althea Gibson is the first African American tennis player to win a major title by winning both womens singles and doubles championship at Wimbledon.
Four African AMerican college students hold a sit-in to integrate a Woolworth's lunch counter in NC.
The Congress of Racial Equality begins to organizre Freedom RIdes throughout the south to try to de-segregate interstate public bus travel.
African American, Malcom X becomes national minister of the nation of Islam.
More than 200,000 peoploe march on Washington, D.C., in the largest civil rights demonstration ever; Martin Luther King Jr. gives his "I Have a Dream" speech.
One year after splitting from the nation of Islam, Malcom X is assassinated in NY by gunmen affiliated with the NOI.
Fifteen African American members of congress form the Congressional Black Caucus to present a unifies African American voice.
