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Supreme Court outlaws school segregation in Brown V. Board of Education.
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White citizens council is formed to resist desegregation.
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Emmett Louis Till is murdered for speaking to a white woman in Money, MIss.
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Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery, Ala.
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Montgomery bus boycott begins.
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Supreme Court bans segregated seating on Montgomery buses.
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower orders federal troops to enforce school desegregation in Little Rock, Ark.
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Black students stage sit-in at "whites only" lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C.
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is founded to promote youth involvement.
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Supreme Court outlaws segregation in bus terminals.
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The University of Georgia is desegregated after a federal judge orders that two African-American students be admitted. White students jeer, "two, four, six, eight, we don't want to integrate."
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Freedom Riders attacked in Alabama while testing compliance with bus desegregation laws.
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Federal Marshals sent to protect civil rights activists threatened by a mob in Montgomery, Ala.
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Civil rights groups join forces to launch voter-registration drive.
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Riots erupt when James Meredith, a black student, enrolls at Ole Miss (University of Mississippi).
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Birmingham police attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses.
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Alabama governor stands in school-house door to stop university integration.
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Medgar Evers: Civil rights leader assassinated in Jackson, Miss.
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25,000 Americans march on Washington for civil rights.
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Addie Mae Collins, Denise Mcnair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley. Schoolgirls killed in bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Ala.
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The 24th amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlaws poll tax in federal elections.
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Freedom Summer brings 1,000 young civil rights volunteers to Miss.
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James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner. Civil rights workers abducted and slain by klansmen, Philadelphia, Miss.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Jimmie Lee Jackson. Civil rights marcher killed by state trooper in Marion, Ala.
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State troopers beat back marchers at Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala.
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Civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery completed.
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Congress passes Voting Rights Act of 1965.
