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Brown v. Board of Education
The decision ordered the desegregation of public schools and ruled that the de jure racial segregation was ruled a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. This ruling paved the way for integration and was a major victory of the civil rights movement. -
Montgomery bus boycott begins
Sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks on 1 December 1955, 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. -
Diwght D. Eisenhower is reelected
Eisenhower is reelected into another term -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference is formed
The SCLC was founded, this conference gave MLK a standing point for future movements in the Civil Rights protests -
Little Rock crisis
In a key event of the American Civil Rights Movement, nine black students enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957. -
Students stage sit-ins across the South
After the Woolworth store sit-in many non violent demonstrators took part in sit-ins across the south -
John F. Keneddy becomes elected president
John F. Keneddy becomes the 35th President of the United States. -
Martin Luther Kind, Jr "I have a dream speech
Kings most famous speech was delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington, the speech was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement. -
Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president upon John F. Kennedy's assassination
Following the Assassanation of the President - Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn into office. -
Freedom Summer
Volunteer's enrolled African Americans to vote. -
Civil Rights Act is passed
a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public. -
Malcom X is Assassinated
An African-American Muslim minister and a human rights activist. was assasinated -
Voting Rights Act is passed
a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. -
Race Riots take place in Major U.S cities
Detroit Race Riot - July 23,1967
Newark Race Riot - July 12,1967 -
MLK is Assassinated
At 6:01 p.m., while he was standing on the motel's second-floor balcony, King was struck by a single .30-06 bullet fired from a Remington Model 760.The bullet entered through King's right cheek, breaking his jaw and several vertebrae as it traveled down his spinal cord, severing his jugular vein and major arteries in the process before lodging in his shoulder. The force of the shot ripped off King's necktie. -
Richard Nixon is Elected
The 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961.
