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First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution says that everyone in the United States has the right to practice his or her own religion, or no religion at all.
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Landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, -
Racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution -
Rosa Parks stayed in her spot on the bus. -
He was murdered for "flirting with a white woman". -
Part of the nonviolent direct action campaign to end racial segregation at lunch counters downtown. -
Assorted to school to be the first one to go to an only white children school. -
The Journey of Reconciliation, left Washington, D.C. to travel through four states of the upper South. -
Led the movement to end segregation and counter prejudice in the United States through the means of peaceful protest. -
The bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church on September 15, 1963, by members of the Ku Klux Klan that killed four girls and injured 22 others. -
King gives his famous speech "I Have a Dream". -
Governor George C Wallis stands in the doorway at the University of Alabama to block two black students from registering. -
King got Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.
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Preventing employment discrimination due to race, color, sex, religion, or national origin.
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Killed during a rally by members of the Nation of Islam. -
Prevent the use of literacy tests as a voting requirement.
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President Truman ended Segregation for the people. -
Providing equal housing opportunity regardless of race, religion, or national origin.
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He had been assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee on April 4, 1968, at 39 years old.
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This is the day we celebrate what our king has done for us.