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All nine Supreme Court Justices rule to have segregation banned from public school. -
An African American 14-year-old boy named Emmett Till was brutally murdered for flirting with a white woman. -
An African-American woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. -
A protest campaign led by Dr.Martin Luther King that protested against the racial segregation on the public transit system in Montgomery, Alabama. -
Nine African-American students attended a 'White Only' school, and were constantly being verbally and violently harassed. -
A civil rights protest where African-Americans would stage a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter and refused to leave after being denied service. -
A political protest against segregation by black and white people who rode buses together through the American South. -
Letter written by Dr.Martin Luther King while he was imprisoned for protesting against the treatment of black people to defend his position for nonviolent direct action. -
A march for jobs and freedom to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African-Americans. -
A white supremacist terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. -
Prohibits any poll tax in elections for federal officials. -
A landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. -
A march in Selma, Alabama that was led by Hosea Williams to ensure that African-Americans could exercise their constitutional rights to vote. -
This act was signed on August 6, 1965 by President Lyndon Johnson. This act ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
A Supreme Court case that struck down state laws banning interracial marriage in the United States.