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the Supreme Court began to overturn the separate but equal law in public education by making schools let black students in. -
14-year-old black Emmett Till was kidnapped, beaten, shot in the head, had a large metal fan tied to his neck with barbed wire, and was thrown into the Tallahatchie River because he possibly whistled at a white woman. His body was later recovered, and an investigation was launched. -
kindled by the arrest of Rosa Parks on the 1st of December in 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that concluded with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses was unconstitutional. -
Congress passed Public Law 88-352. The Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
the Supreme Court said that Arkansas could not pass legislation undermining the Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. -
four black students sat at a white-only lunch counter inside a Greensboro, North Carolina, and would not move until hours later -
Medgar Wiley Evers was an American civil rights activist but a white supremacist killed him in the driveway outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi. -
A march that took place in 1965 from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. These marches were organized By MLK to protest the blocking of Black Americans' right to vote. -
MLK and the (SCLC) joined with Birmingham, Alabama’s local movement, the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR), in a massive direct action campaign to attack the city’s segregation system by putting pressure on Birmingham’s merchants during the Easter season. -
Martin Luther King was shot while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. -
made discrimination illegal in housing because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or physical or mental handicaps. -
the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously upheld busing programs that aimed to speed up the racial integration of public schools in the United States -
Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's home run record while playing for the Atlanta Braves.
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A Supreme Court case which held that a university's admissions criteria which used race as a determining factor for an admission decision violated the 14th ammendment -
Jordan got recognition for delivering a powerful opening statement at the House Judiciary Committee hearings during the impeachment process against Richard Nixon. In 1976, she became the first black woman to deliver a keynote address at a Democratic National Convention