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The U.S. supreme court that upheld the racist policy of segregation by legalizing "separate but equal" facilities for black and white students
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US court overturned "separate but equal" during the Brown v. Board of Education case.
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Emmet Till was murdered in Money, MI.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white patron on a Montgomery City bus, she was promptly arrested
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Montgomery Bus Boycott begins
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Little Rock Nine enter Central Highschool
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4 black college students sat at an all white counter and started a sit-in protest at a Woolworth's store
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Freedom Rides begin in the south to protest segregation
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Martin Luther King Jr. is arresting in Birmingham, AL while protesting in the "most segregated city in America"
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more than 250,000 people march on Washington to demand the immediate passage of civil rights
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President LBJ signed the premier legislation for civil rights into law
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A march from Selma to Montgomery begins to fight for voting rights
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President LBJ signed the voting rights act, outlawing the use of literacy tests in voting
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Black Panther Party is founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
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Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis
