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Plessy v Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court issued in 1896. -
NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial organization -
The Congress of Racial Equality is formed
The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement. -
The Desegregation in The Military
Harry S. Truman decided to abolish the racial segregation in the United States Armed Forces -
Malcom X begins leading the Nation of Islam
Malcolm X is widely regarded as the second most influential leader of the Nation of Islam after Elijah Muhammad. He was largely credited with the group's dramatic increase in membership between the early 1950s and early 1960s -
Brown V Board of Education
A nine year old girl named Linda Brown, had to walk the distance of a mile every morning the get to the elementary school, when there was an all white school much closer -
Emnett Till
Emnet Till was a 14 year old black kid that was brutally murdered after calling a white woman ''baby''. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. -
Little Rock Nine
Nine black students that were arrested for attending to an all-white-school. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference is formed
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC, which is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr., had a large role in the American civil rights movement -
The Freedom Riders
Mostly black but also white people, traveling from Washington in what were called freedom busses as kind of a protest against segregation. -
The Strategy of Sit-Ins
Students from across the country came together to form the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and organize sit-ins at counters throughout the South. -
Student Non-Violent Coordination Committee is formed
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, often pronounced /snɪk/ SNIK) was one of the major Civil Rights Movement organizations of the 1960s. It emerged from the first wave of student sit-ins and formed at an April 1960 meeting organized by Ella Baker at Shaw University -
I have a dream
Martin Luther King Jr, the guy that was famous for leading the blacks towards freedom, held this speech which were one of his most famous speeches. -
Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer was a voting registrations project in Mississippi. -
The 24th Amendment
The Twenty-fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement. -
Rodney King Trial
Rodney became known since he got brutally abused by several police officers, -
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. -
Race Riots in Watts and other cities
Watts riots. The Watts riots, sometimes referred to as the Watts Rebellion, took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles from August 11 to 16, 1965. ... The riots were blamed principally on police racism. It was the city's worst unrest until the Rodney King riots of 1992 -
Martin Luther King Jr's assassination
The famous man and leader of the blacks where assassinated when standing on a balcony at a motel -
Boston Busing
The desegregation of Boston public schools (1974–1988) was a period in which the Boston Public Schools were under court control to desegregate through a system of busing students
