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Oliver Brown tried to enroll his daughter into school and was turned down because the school was all white. After several delays and a rehearing in December of 1953, the Supreme Court finally reached a unanimous decision on May 17, 1954, when it ruled that the segregation of public school systems was unconstitutional.
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14 year old, African American, Emmett is kidnapped, beaten and shot in the head in Money, Mississippi.
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Rosa Parks was arrested by police for refusing to give up her seat on the bus for a white person.
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On September 9, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
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50 sticks of dynamite exploded in a recessed entrance way at the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation, Atlanta's oldest and most prominent synagogue, more commonly known as "the Temple."
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federal district court Judge W. A. Bootle ordered the immediate admission of Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter to the University of Georgia, ending 160 years of segregation at the school.
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The bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, was one of the deadliest acts of violence to take place during the Civil Rights movement and evoked criticism and outrage from around the world.
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President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in a presidential motorcade.
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King, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his dynamic leadership of the Civil Rights movement and steadfast commitment to achieving racial justice through nonviolent action.
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To protest local resistance to black voter registration in Dallas County, Alabama, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference organized a mass march from Selma to Montgomery.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated by a sniper's bullet while standing on the second-floor balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
