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Abolished slavery
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The Supreme Court decided that "separate but equal" was constitutional and did not violate the 14th Amendment.
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Made his debute for the Brooklyn Dodgers becoming the first African American to play in Major League Baseball. This movement intergrated other sports as well.
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A major step in the Civil Rights movement was the integration of the military services. Equal opportunity in the armed forces was the result of the Executive Order 9981
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A landmark case for ending segregation in schools.
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After the Brown decision, controversy rocked Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Violence broke out when 9 African-American students attempting to go to school were met by mobs of protesters.
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In Brown II, the Court ordered them to integrate schools "with all deliberate speed.
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Rosa Parks, was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. African Americans civil rights leaders responded by organizing a boycott, to not use the bus system.
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Schools in Arkansas, refused to admit Blacks to all-white schools, President Eisenhower ordered U.S. Army to escort and protect African-American students.
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The Freedom Riders which consisted both blacks and whites tested a Supreme Court ruling that segregation on interstate public transportation was not constitutional, non-violent civil disobedience.
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Governor George Wallace refused to allow African American students to register for classes at an all-white University. President Kennedy authorized the use of the National Guard to enforce educational intergration.
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Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. delivered this landmark speech to speak on hope to see a world free of discrimination, where people of all races could live in harmony.
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People marched on Washington D.C. to demonstrate for equal rights.
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This act ended all major forms of discrimination and segregation.
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Banned literacy tests in counties where over half of eligible voters have been disenfranchised.
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He mainly preached Black supremacy, and separation of blacks and whites.
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The Party felt that only African Americans were capable of showing that they had the power to denfend themselves with violent activities, and wanted to end racial discrimination.
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He was killed in Memphis Tennessee, he was there to support striking African American city sanitation workers.
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An event strengthening the gay rights movement, any homosexual conduct was a crime punishable by law.
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This amendment added the protection of women equality as a constitutional purpose. Also, no one shall be denied according to their sex
