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A black boxer that is remained as a boxing legend who won against James J Jeffries. John Jackson was arrested for charges violating the Mann act.
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Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier when he became the first black athlete to play Major League Baseball.
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A landmark during the United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
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In Montgomery Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order to give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger.
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A 14 year old African American boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after a white woman said she was offended by him in her family's grocery store.
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The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and nationality.
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This act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the voting practices allowing in many southern states after the Civil War.
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Loving v. Virginia is a landmark civil rights decision of the United States Supreme Court, which allowed laws prohibiting interracial marriage.
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The Rumble in the Jungle was a historic boxing event in Kinshasa, Zaire. Pitted the undefeated world heavyweight champion George Foreman against challenger Muhammad Ali,
