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The Little Rock Nine were nine African American students who integrated Little Rock Central High School. This was a Civil Rights event following the Brown v. Board of Education ruling. -
the Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional. It signaled the end of legalized racial segregation in the schools of the United States, overruling the "separate but equal" principle set forth in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case. -
The murder of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy visiting Mississippi from Chicago.Two men abducted him and murdered him after he allegedly whistled at a white woman, This sparked activism in the American Civil Rights Movement due to the graphic photos of his mutilated body, the killers' acquittal by an all-white jury, and his mother's courageous decision for an open-casket funeral to expose racial injustice -
Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man helped to start the Montgomery bus boycott. The boycott was a 13 month long protest led by African Americans who walked, carpooled, or used other transport, crippling the bus system and leading to a Supreme Court ruling desegregating buses. -
The Greensboro Woolworth's sit-in was a pivotal nonviolent protest against segregation where four Black college students sat at a "whites-only" lunch counter, sparking a massive movement that led to the desegregation of lunch counters across the South and inspired the broader Civil Rights Movement -
was a landmark U.S. law signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, ending segregation in public places, ensuring equal employment opportunities, and integrating schools and public facilities, making it a monumental step in the American Civil Rights Movement. -
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was held in Washington, D.C. The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. -
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was a terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The bombing was committed by the white supremacist terrorist group the Ku Klux Klan -
was a nearly 7,000-word responsewritten from a jail cell defending nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience against segregation, countering criticism from white clergymen who called him an "outsider" and urged patience, and famously stating, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere," becoming a landmark document of the Civil Rights Movement -
The Twenty-fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from requiring the payment of a poll tax or any other tax to vote in federal elections. -
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions -
The Voting Rights Act (VRA), signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, was a landmark federal law that outlawed discriminatory voting practices like literacy tests and poll taxes, ensuring the 15th Amendment's promise of racial equality in voting was upheld -
was the brutal attack on peaceful civil rights marchers by state troopers and local police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, as they began their 54-mile march to the state capital, Montgomery, for voting rights -
Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1, was a landmark civil rights decision of the United States Supreme Court that ruled that the laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution