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Concerned with the challenges facing African Americans, especially in the wake of the 1908 Springfield (Illinois) Race Riot. -
Nine African American teenagers falsely accused of raping two white women on a train in 1931. They were arrested in Scottsboro, Alabama, and faced a series of trials where biased juries and poor legal representation resulted in convictions and death sentences for most of them. -
Robinson broke the color barrier in a sport that had been segregated for more than 50 years. -
The Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education declared state sponsored segregation in public schools unconstitutional. -
Two white men kill Emmett Till a 14 year-old black boy for whistling at a white woman; their acquittal and -
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a significant protest in the Civil Rights Movement, where African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to ride city buses for 381 days to protest racial segregation on public transportation. -
The Little Rock Nine were nine African American high school students who were the first to integrate Central High School in Little Rock. -
She was the first African American child to attend formerly whites-only William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race. -
It is that civil disobedience is a necessary response to unjust laws and a moral imperative to fight against racial injustice. -
US black nationalist leader Malcolm X. The BBC reported on the reaction in his adopted home of Harlem New York as thousands of people queued to pay their last respects. -
One of the primary reasons for the formation of the Black Panther Party was to address police brutality against the African American community.
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The Senate confirmed Thurgood Marshall as the first Black person to serve as a Supreme Court Justice. Marshall was no stranger to the Senate or the Supreme Court at the time. -
Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee.
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The Democratic ticket of Barack Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, and Joe Biden, the senior senator from Delaware, defeated the Republican ticket of John McCain.