U.S. Supreme Court bans segregationin public schools.
Ruby was born in Mississippi, four years later they move to New Orleans.
Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, is arrrested December 1 for refusing to give up her seat to a white person. Bus boycott launched in Montgomery, Alabama.
After more than a year of boycotting the buses and a legal fight, the Montgomery buses desegregate.
January Ruby had her first day at Frantz Elementary School for Whites in New Orleans
Freedom rides begin from Washington, D.C: Groups of black and white people ride buses through the South to challenge segregation.
Police arrest Civil Rights Leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other ministers demonstrating in Birmingham, Alabama, then turn fire hoses and police dogs on the marchers.
President John F. Kennedy calls for Civil Rights Act.
President John F. Kennedy 1961-1963, shot dead by a white person.
Look magazine published Norman Rockwell's painting The Probem We All Live With.
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Black Nationalist Leader Malcom X is murdered.
Civil Rights Leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is assasinated in Memphis, Tennessee, unleashing violence in more than 100 cities.
