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The U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the racist policy of segregation by legalizing “separate but equal” facilities for blacks and whites.
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The film "The Birth of a Nation" was released and is regarded as one of the most racist films in history
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FDR signed executive order 8802 into action, which ends the segregation of government employment.
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The U.S. Supreme Court unanimous decision that overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine in public schools.
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Emmett Till was murdered in Money, Mississippi.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery City Bus and was arrested.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott begins.
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The Little Rock 9 enter Central High School as federal troops oversee the situation sent by President Eisenhower.
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4 black college students sat at an all-white lunch counter and started a sit-in protest at a Woolworth’s store.
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Ruby Bridges became the first African American child to integrate a southern elementary school
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Freedom riders begin a bus ride through the South to protest segregation.
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James Meredith became the first African American to enroll at Ole Miss.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham protesting in the “most segregated city in America.”
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Civil Rights activist, Medgar Evers, was shot and killed in the driveway of his home.
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More than 250,000 people, march on Washington to demand immediate passage of the civil rights bill.
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John F Kennedy was assassinated in Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the premier legislation for Civil Rights into law.
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Malcolm X was shot and killed in New York by members of the Nation of Islam.
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A march from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights begins.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law outlawing literacy tests.
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Riots broke out one week after the Voting Rights Act was passed. The riots lasted 6 days and demolished the city.
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Huey Newton & Bobby Seale founded the “Black Power” political group known as the Black Panthers.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis.
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Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed in California by Sirhan Sirhan.
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After an all black jury found an African American not guilty of murdering a white police officer, two KKK members lynched 19 year old Michael Donald.
