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It found that having separate public schools were unconstitutional.
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A 14-year-old brutally killed by a white man because a white woman who said she was offended by him in her family’s grocery store.
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The boycott was both a political and social protest against the policy of racial segregation on the buses.
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A group of nine African-Americans enrolled in Little Rock Central High as a result of Brown vs Board of Education and this caused Little Rock crisis.
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A civil rights protest when a group of African- Americans sat down at a Woolworth department chain and demanded to be served which soon caused other sit-in movements to spread throughout the South.
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Bridges was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white school in New Orleans. She was escorted with US Marshals and her mother through the angry racist mobs.
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They were protesting segregated bus terminals.
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Meredith was the first african american to enroll at University of Mississippi.
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In the letter King discusses the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism.
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George Wallace tried to keep segregation in Alabama but the federal district court required UA to admit two African Americans.
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Bryon De La Beckwith hid in honeysuckle bushes near his driveway and as he was walking towards his car Beckwith shot which resulted in him dying in front of his two children.
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A protest march that was aimed at to bring attention to challenges and inequalities faced by African- Americans.
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This was an act of white supremacy terrorism and it caused 4 black girls to die. This was a meeting place for civil rights leaders.
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A project by CORE and SNCC to expand black voting in the South.
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This amendment prohibited any type of poll tax in elections for federal officials
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This is a law that prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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Martin Luther was the youngest person at 35 to ever win a Nobel Peace Prize since it began in 1901 at the time.
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In response to this march the president passed a bill to protect African- Americans from barriers that prevented them from not voting.
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This act prohibited racial discrimination in voting.
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He was the Courts 96th justice and the first African-American before he was appointed he argued several cases in the Supreme Court.
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He was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee by James Earl Ray which resulted in him getting 99 years in prison.
