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On July 27, 1919, an African-American teenager drowned in Lake Michigan after violating the unofficial segregation of Chicago’s beaches and being stoned by a group of white youths.
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On May 17, 1954 the United States Supreme Court handed down its ruling in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
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Ruby Bridges was one of the first African America to attend a white school.
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200,000 people (black and white) marched to Washington to pressure the government to give African-Americans rights. This is also the place and time where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech.
