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NAACP begins to build the case for Brown vs Board of Education. This lasts from 1951 to 1954.
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Earl Warren was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
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Brown vs Board of education overturned Plessy vs Ferguson making segregation illegal in schools but also applied to other public facilities.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus and was arrested for violating segregation laws. This led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and eventually to the desegregration of the buses.
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Nine African American students attempt to go to what was once a previous all white school. President Eisenhower sends federal troops to desegregate the High School.
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Here students sat at a segregated lunch counter in protest. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) stages more sit-ins throughout the South between the years 1960 and 1966.
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James Meredith became the first African American enrolled in the newly desegregated University of Mississippi.
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The violent reaction on this peaceful march shocked the nation. As a result of this march, MLK was thrown in jail and from there he wrote the famous 'Letters from a Birmingham Jail'.
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Martin Luther King Jr led a march of 200,000 to wasington to give his most famous speech I have a Dream in front of the Lincoln memorial.
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John F. Kennedy is assassinated. Lyndon B. Johnson comes into office and expands on JFK vision.
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The 24th amendment prohibited the poll tax in any elections for federal offices.
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Malcolm X was shot in the middle of giving a speech.
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The Voting Rights Act abolishes literacy tests in national elections
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Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated.
