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The U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the racist policy of segregation by legalizing “separate but equal” facilities for blacks and whites.
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The U.S. Supreme Court unanimous decision that overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine in public schools.
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Emmett Till was murdered in Money, Mississippi.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery City Bus and was arrested.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott begins.
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The Little Rock 9 enter Central High School as federal troops oversee the situation sent by President Eisenhower.
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fifty sticks of dynamite exploded in a recessed entranceway at the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation, Atlanta's oldest and most prominent synagogue, more commonly known as "the Temple."
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4 black college students sat at an all-white lunch counter and started a sit-in protest at a Woolworth’s store.
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residents of Albany, Georgia, launched an ambitious campaign to eliminate segregation in all facets of local life.
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To avoid the civil unrest that attended the University of Georgia's court-ordered desegregation, officials at Georgia Tech began plotting an integration strategy
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Freedom riders begin a bus ride through the South to protest segregation.
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the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People held its annual convention in Atlanta.
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the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People held its annual convention in Atlanta.
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riots erupted on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford where locals, students, and committed segregationists had gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran attempting to integrate the all-white school.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham protesting in the “most segregated city in America.”
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a federal district court in Alabama ordered the University of Alabama to admit African American students Vivien Malone and James Hood during its summer session.
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More than 250,000 people, march on Washington to demand immediate passage of the civil rights bill.
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two Atlanta business owners captured national attention when they refused to comply with the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law outlawing literacy tests.
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Black religious leader Malcolm X is assassinated during a rally by members of the Nation of Islam.
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A march from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights begins.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law outlawing literacy tests.
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Huey Newton & Bobby Seale founded the “Black Power” political group known as the Black Panthers.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis.
