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Browns vs. Board of Education
Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the Consitution. -
Emmett Till Murder
He was 14 years old. Was kidnapped and murdered in Money, Mississippi, galvanizing support for racial reform in the south -
Montgomery Bus Boycott / Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a public bus to a white passenger. Her subsequent arrest initiated a sustained bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. -
The Little Rock Nine / Little Rock Central High School Integration
They came to be called, encountered a large white mob and soldiers from the Arkansas National Guard, sent by Arkansas Gov. Orval Eugene Faubus, blocking the entrance of the school. They returned on September 23 but were met with violence. -
The Greensboro Four / Sit-In Movement
As they called them, however, remained seated until closing and returned the next day with about 20 other African American students. The sit-in grew in the following weeks with protesters taking every seat in the establishment and spilling out of the store -
Ruby Bridges / The New Orleans School Integration
She was escorted to her first day at the previously all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans by four armed federal marshals. Every subsequent day of that academic year Bridges was escorted to school, enduring insults and threats on her way, and then learning her lessons from her young teacher,Barbara Henry. -
Freedom Rides
Which extended an earlier ruling banning segregated interstate bus travel (1946) to include bus terminals and restrooms, the so-called Freedom Riders used facilities for the opposite race as their buses made stops along the way. -
March on Washington
To protest civil rights abuses and employment discrimination. A crowd of about 250000 individuals gathered peacefully on the National Mall in Washington D.C. -
Church in Birmingham
Kills 4 young girls and injures several other people prior to Sunday services. The bombing fuels angry protests -
Freedom Summer
Hundreds of Northern college students traveled to Mississippi to help register black voters and encourage participation in the Civil Rights movement -
Civil Rights Act
Lyndon B. Johnson, signed the Civil Rights Act into law, a stronger version of what his predecessor, President Kennedy, had proposed the previous summer before his assassination in November 1963. -
Assassination of Malcolm X
He was assassinated while lecturing at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, New York. An eloquent orator, Malcolm X spoke out on the civil rights movement, demanding it move beyond civil rights to human rights, and argued that the solution to racial problems was in orthodox Islam. -
Selma-Montgomery March
Organized a march from Selma, Alabama, to the state's capital, Montgomery, to call for a federal voting rights law that would provide legal support for disenfranchised African Americans in the south. Sent back marchers with violence and tear gas and television cameras recorded the incident. -
Bloody Sunday
Around 600 civil rights, marchers walk from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery-the state capital in protest of Balck voter suppression. They successfully fought in court and martin and other civil rights leaders finally made it to Montgomery on March 25. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
To prevent the use of literacy tests as a voting requirement. Also allowed federal examiners to review voter qualifications and federal observes to monitor polling places -
Watts Riots
After a white police officer arrested an African American man, Marquette Frye, on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. Violence, fires, and looting broke out over the next six days. The disturbance resulted in 34 deaths, more than 1000 injuries, and 40$ million in property damage. -
Black Panther Party founded
The Black Panthers launched numerous community programs that offered such services as tuberculosis testing, legal aid, transportation assistance, and free shoes to poor people. -
Detroit Riot
After a raid at an illegal drinking club where police arrested everyone inside, including 82 African Americans. Nearby residents protested and several began to vandalize property, loot businesses, and start fires for the next five days. Although police set up blockades, the violence spread to other parts of the city and resulted in 43 deaths, hundreds of injuries, more than 7000 arrests, and 1000 burned buildings. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Was killed by a sniper while standing on the second-floor balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. Tennessee -
Fair Housing Act
Providing equal housing opportunity regardless of race, religion or national origin.