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A landmark decision from the Supreme Court that made racial inequality legal.
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Organization formed to advance justice for African-Americans in the U.S. (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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African-American baseball player Jackie Robinson plays baseball in the major leagues
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Harry S. Truman signs the President's Committee on Equality and Opportunity in the Armed Services, which commits the military to letting African-Americans join.
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Landmark Supreme Court case in which the court declared segregated schools to be unconstitutional.
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14 year old Emmett Till was brutally abducted and murdered (lynched) after a white woman said he had "offended" her.
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Social Protest campaign against the racial segregation employed on public buses in Montgomery, Alabama
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Nine African-American students attend an all white high school.
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African-American high school students sit in at a segregated restaurant counter in Greensboro.
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Civil Rights activists who protested Morgan v. Virginia and Boynton v. Virginia.
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4000 African-American children walked out of school at 11 to protest racism in Birmingham.
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A lot of Black-Americans marched to protest racism in Washington.
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Outlawed discrimination based on race, sex, ETC.
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Malcolm X, civil rights activist, is assassinated
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Three marches from Selma to Mongtomery in Alabama, protesting racism.
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Prohibited racial discrimination in voting.
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False news spread that police had hurt a pregnant women in a fight with a motorcyclist, causing huge riots all throughout LA.
