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Brown v. Board of education decision orders the desegregation of public schools.
It was a Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Montgomery bus boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the racial segregation on the public transit system for african americans in Montgomery, Alabama. -
School segregation crisis occurs in Little Rock, Arkansas
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine black students who enrolled at a all white High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957. Their attendance at the school was a test of Brown v. Board of Education, ruling segregation in public schools. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Originally proposed by Attorney General Herbert Brownell, the Act marked the first occasion since Reconstruction that the federal government undertook significant legislative action to protect civil rights. -
University of Georgia Integration
Judge W. A. Bootle ordered the immediate admission of Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter to the University of Georgia, ending 160 years of segregation at the school. -
Freedom rides
An interracial group of student activists with two Supreme Court rulings banning segregated accommodations on interstate buses and in bus terminals that served interstate routes. -
Birmingham bombing(Sixteenth street baptist church)
On the morning of September 15, 1963, as the congregation's children prepared for annual Youth Day celebrations, a bomb exploded in the stairwell of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church killing four girls and injuring dozens of others in the assembly. -
Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president after JFK's assassination
He was the second to become president if anything happened to JFK and once the assassination happened he became president of the United States. -
Congress passes the Civil Rights Act
It was the law made in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
Dr. King's assassination
Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated by a sniper's bullet while standing on the second-floor balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
