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In this case, the court upheld state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities.
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This case declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. It also overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896.
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Two white men kidnapped and killed Emmett, but were aquitted in court by an all-white male jury.
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African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School and were prevented from entering, until President Dwight D. Eisenhower intervened.
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Four students from North Carolina A&T sit down at a "whites-only" counter and ask to be served, but stayed after being refused service. This started a wave of people doing this all across the south.
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Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the south to fight the "seperate but equal" John Crow laws of the south.
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Campaign in the United States that attempted to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi.
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Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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A street riot in Detroit turned violent due to one of the worse cases of police brutality ever.
