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racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution -
14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier. -
Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist who refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama -
The Little Rock Nine as the nine teens came to be known, were to be the first African American students to enter Little Rock's Central High School. Three years earlier, following the Supreme Court ruling, the Little Rock school board pledged to voluntarily desegregate its schools -
The Greensboro Sit-In was a critical turning point in Black history and American history, bringing the fight for civil rights to the national stage -
The Freedom Rides were first conceived in 1947 when CORE and the Fellowship of Reconciliation organized an interracial bus ride across state lines to test a Supreme Court decision that declared segregation on interstate buses unconstitutional -
The Letter from Birmingham Jail also known as the Letter from Birmingham City Jail and The Negro Is Your Brother is an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King Jr -
250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln memorial in Washington D.C. -
Four members of a local Ku Klux Klan chapter planted 19 sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device beneath the steps located on the east side of the church. Described by Martin Luther King Jr. -
United States Constitution says that if the President becomes unable to do his job, the Vice President becomes the President -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin -
525 to 600 civil rights marchers headed southeast out of Selma on U.S. Highway 80. The march was led by John Lewis of SNCC and the Reverend Hosea Williams of SCLC, followed by Bob Mants of SNCC and Albert Turner of SCLC -
Outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the civil war -
The U.S. supreme court unanimously struck down states antimiscegenation statutes in Virginia as unconstitutional under equal protection and due process clauses of the 14th amendment