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A consolidation of five cases into one in which the Supreme Court decided effectively ending racial segregation in public schools -
Sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks, the bus boycott was a 13 month mass protest in which people started protesting by not riding the public transportation system and started to find their own rides. The protest ended when the U.S. supreme court ruled that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional -
Daisy Bates worked as a crusading newspaper owner-journalist, who is becoming president of the Arkansas NAACP. After the brown school desegregation decision, Little Rock school board officials decided to begin desegregation of central high schools in September of 1957 -
Four African American college students in Greensboro, North Carolina refused to leave their seats at a “whites only” lunch counter without being served -
Black and white activists known as the freedom riders took bus trips through the American South to protest segregated bus terminals and attempted to use “whites only” restrooms and lunch counters. The freedom riders were marked by horrific violence from white protestors, they drew international attention to their cause -
A bomb at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama kills four young girls and injuries several other people prior to Sunday Service. The bombing fuels angry protests -
Martin Luther King delivered a speech to a massive group of civil rights marchers gathered around the Lincoln memorial in Washington DC. This speech is widely considered as one of the turning points in the civil rights movement -
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the civil rights act of 1964 into law, preventing employment discrimination due to race, color, sex, religion or national origin. -
President Johnson signs the voting rights act of 1965 to prevent the use of literacy tests as a voting requirement. It also allowed federal examiners to review voter qualifications and federal observers to monitor polling places -
Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated on the balcony of his hotel room in Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray was the convicted murder of the assassination -
This chart shows the black and white wealth gap from the 1960's to all the way to 2016. The chart also shows the Median black household wealth as a percentage of median white household wealth. The percentage was at 9.4% in 1968 while the percentage decreased a little in 2016 when it was 8.7%. -
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Organization with an ideology of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality. Black panther membership reached a peak in 1970, with officers in 68 cities and thousands of members, but it began to decline over the following decade -
Representative Shirley Chisholm of New York became a national symbol of both movements as the first major party African American candidate and the first female candidate for president of the United States -
This graph shows the unemployment rate for white and African American people of the age of 20 and over. This graph shows that in 1977 it was the highest unemployment rate for African American women and men at 12.5%, while 1975 was the highest unemployment rate at 7.5%. -
On August 30, 1983, the space shuttle challenger blasted off in the dark from Kennedy Space center in Florida, carrying the first African American astronaut to go into space -
United States labor law, passed in response to United States Supreme Court decisions that limited the rights of employees who had sued their employers for discrimination -
Major outbreak of violence, looting, and arson in Los Angeles that began on April 29, 1992 in response to the acquittal of four white Los Angeles policeman on all but one charge that was connected with the severe beating of African American motorist in March 1991 -
October 1995, hundreds and thousands of black men gathered in Washington, D.C. for the million man march, one of the largest demonstrations of its kind in the capital's history. Minister Louis Farrakhan organized the march to inspire black men to meet in Washington on a day of atonement -
The Vietnam veteran and four star U.S. army general Colin Powell played an integral role in planning and executing the first Persian Gulf War under president George H.W. Bush. In 2001, George W. Bush appointed Powell as secretary of State, making him the first African American to serve as Americans top diplomat -
On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States. He is the first African American president ever elected in U.S. history -
Movement began in July of 2013 with the use of the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter on social media after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of African American teen Trayvon Martin 17 months earlier in February 2012 -
Caused by the death of George Floyd, these were ongoing series of protests and civil unrest against police brutality and racism that began in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 26, 2020 and largely took place during 2020
