-
President Harry S. Truman signed this executive order establishing the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services, committing the government to integrating the segregated military. -
Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality. -
The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. -
The first day of classes at Central High, Governor Orval Faustus called in the Arkansas National Guard to block the Black students' entry into the high school. -
The new act established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote. -
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests over equality and to end racism. -
The Children's Crusade, was a march by over 1,000 school students.The purpose of the march was to walk downtown to talk to the mayor about segregation in their city. -
The March on Washington was a massive protest of behalf of equal rights. During that time, Martin Luther King Jr gave a speech about his dream of soon living in a racist free world. -
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was a white supremacist terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, which killed 4 people -
Freedom Summer Project,was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. -
The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. -
It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. -
The Black Panther Party,was a Marxist-Leninist Black Power political organization. -
the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously (9–0) struck down state anti miscegenation statutes in Virginia as unconstitutional under the equal protection and due process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. -
Martin was assassinated on April 4,1968 on his hotel balcony by James Earl Ray.