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A landmark Supreme Court case in which the Court declared segregation of public school students to be unconstitutional.
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Till was a 14 year old African American in Mississippi who was lynched after a white woman said that she was offended by him in a grocery store.
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A protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transport system in Montgomery, Alabama.
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A group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High school in 1957. They were initially turned away from joining the segregated school, but eventually were given access.
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A series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of segregation in the south. The sit-ins lasted for nearly 6 months.
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Ruby was the first African American child to attend an all white school. She led the desegregation of public schools in the south.
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People who challenged racial laws in the south by refusing to abide by laws designating that seating in buses be segregated by race.
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James Meredith became the first African American to enroll at the University of Mississippi, becoming a pivotal event in the Civil Rights Movement.
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An open letter written on April 16, 1963 by Martin Luther King Jr. that defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism.
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President John F. Kennedy sent federal troops to the university to force its desegregation. The next day two African American students successfully enrolled.
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An American Civil rights leader in Mississippi was assassinated by a member of the white citizen's council.
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March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was a political demonstration by civil rights leaders to protest racial discrimination and show support for major civil rights legislation that was pending in Congress.
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A bombing attack on an African American baptist church done by white supremacists. The attackers planted 15 sticks of dynamite beneath stairs in the church, killing four young girls and injuring others.
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A volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi.
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The 24th Amendment added to the Constitution. It prohibits the conditioning of the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax, or any other payment.
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This act ended segregation in public places, as well as banning discrimination in the workplace. It was seen as one of the crowing legislative achievements in the civil rights movement.
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The prize was awarded King for his nonviolent resistance to racial prejudice in the United States.
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Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the state capital in Montgomery, Alabama from Selma, Alabama.
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Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from their right to vote.
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A group of violent disturbances in Watts, in Los Angeles that lasted for six days. Over 30 people died, and it was the first of several violent clashes between African Americans and the police in the 60s.
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President John F. Kennedy appointed this American lawyer to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
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The civil rights leader was shot and killed outside of his hotel room after giving his infamous "I Have a Dream" speech.
