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U.S. Supreme Court's ruling of 1954.
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education was a watershed event in the history of the United States. -
Kid was kidnapped
On August 28, 1955, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped and murdered in Money, Mississippi, galvanizing support for racial reform in the South. -
A major boycott
Local a police in Montgomery, Alabama, arrested Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, when she did not give her seat in the white section of a city bus on December 1, 1955. This is a major boycott in the segregation. -
Public schools
Two years following the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, Federal District Court Judge, J. Shelly Wright, ordered the Orleans Parish School Board to design an effective plan for the desegregation of New Orleans' public schools. -
Central High School in Little Rock
The desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, gained national attention on September 3, 1957, when Governor Orval Faustus mobilized the Arkansas National Guard in an effort to prevent nine African American students from integrating the high school. -
The Prayer Pilgrimage
The Prayer Pilgrimage to Washington for Freedom took place on May 17, 1957, when a crowd of over thirty thousand nonviolent demonstrators, from more than thirty states, gathered at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. to commemorate the third anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling. -
The Temple
In the early hours of October 12, 1958, fifty 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." -
Highlander Folk School
Between 1932 and 1962, the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee, provided a valuable training ground for two generations of southern labor organizers and Civil Rights activists. -
Martin Luther King, Jr assassin
On April 4, 1968, 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. Someone didn't like him. -
Civil Rights of 1975
On September 9, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1957.The Civil Rights Act of 1957 enacted September 9, 1957, primarily a voting rights bill, was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1975.
