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Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka Kansas
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. -
Rosa Parks
She refused to move out of her set when a white man wanted to where she was sitting so she got arrested. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. -
Formation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is an African-American civil rights organization. -
Little Rock Nine integrate Arkansas public school
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis. -
Woolworth Sit In
Four African American college students sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworth’s in Greensboro, North Carolina, and politely asked for service.But were Refused. -
Ruby Bridges integrate New Orleans public school
This is when Ruby Bridges going to a all white school. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and following years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia and Boynton v. Virginia, which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. -
James Meredith Enrolls in the University of Mississippi
Meredith became the first African-American student at the University of Mississippi. a crowd of white students and segregationists protested his enrollment by rioting on the Oxford campus over the next few days. -
Martin Luther King Jr writes letters from a Birmingham jail
He writes letters about risist thing that are going around. -
Bull Connor's Violence becomes national news
He used hoses and arrested african americans. -
Martin Luther King Jr march on Washington "I have a Dream" speech
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place in Washington, D.C. Attended by some 250,000 people, it was the largest demonstration ever seen in the nation's capital, and one of the first to have extensive television coverage. -
24th Amendment Passed
This amendment end the poll tax. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
It outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, or national origin. -
Malcom X assassinated
An African American nationalist and religious leader, is assassinated by rival Black Muslims while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights. -
Selma March "Bloody Sunday"
Six hundred marchers assembled in Selma on Sunday, March 7, and, led by John Lewis and other SNCC and SCLC activists, crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge over the Alabama River en route to Montgomery. Just short of the bridge, they found their way blocked by Alabama State troopers and local police who ordered them to turn around. When the protesters refused, the officers shot teargas and waded into the crowd, beating the nonviolent protesters with billy clubs and ultimately hospitalizing over fifty -
Lyndon Johnson Institutes Affirmative Action
In an eloquent speech to the graduating class at Howard University, President Johnson frames the concept underlying affirmative action, asserting that civil rights laws alone are not enough to remedy discrimination. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
It prohibits racial discrimination in voting. -
Los Angeles race riots
A black motorist was arrested for drunk-driving, and a minor roadside argument suddenly turned into a riot. There followed six days of looting and arson, especially of white-owned businesses, and police needed the support of nearly 4000 troops. There were 34 deaths and over $40 million in property damage. The riots were blamed principally on unemployment, although a later investigation also highlighted police racism. -
Black Panthers are formed
On this date in 1966, the Black Panther Party was founded. It was a Black political organization; originally known as the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. -
Thurgood Marshall is appointed to the Supreme Court
President Lyndon Johnson appoints U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Thurgood Marshall to fill the seat of retiring Supreme Court Associate Justice Tom C. Clark. On August 30, after a heated debate, the Senate confirmed Marshall's nomination by a vote of 69 to 11. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
