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Executive order 9981 is signed by Harry Truman desegregating the army.
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The Supreme Court established that "separate education facilities are inherently unequal" making it clear that racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional.
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Emmet Till is falsely accused of flirting with Caroline Bryant and then lynched for that Accusation. His murderers are acquitted.
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In an act of defiance against racial segregation on public transportation Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat in the front of the bus for a white passenger thus getting herself arrested and igniting the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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In May of 1961 Civil Rights activists begin to ride interstate buses in racially mixed groups to challenge various laws that upheld racial segregation
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The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom commenced with the goal of ending both racism and fighting for the poor. It ends with Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have A Dream" Speech
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After years of pressure from Civil Rights activists such as Martin Luther King Jr. the Johnson administration finally signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law which prohibits discrimination based on race (and later other identities) and enforces this formally in the school system while also protecting voting rights for minorities
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After Malcolm X's political journey over recent years had begun to cause rifts with the leadership of the Nation of Islam X is assassinated due to an inside plot in the Audubon Ballroom.
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Huey Newton and Bobby Seale form the infamous Black Panther Party which at first is started in Oakland to monitor racist policing through open carry.
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After years of leading non-violent protest and class struggles throughout the United States Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis Tennessee.
