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Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement is considered as a look at the largest social movement of the 20th century, including the Brown decision, the challenge to social segregation, voting rights, black power, and the movements legacy. It took 14 years to establish equality for all American people -
Brown versus Board of Education
A young girl named Linda Brown was the center of a landmark United States Supreme Court Case. The court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Local authorities in Montgomery, Alabama, arrested Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, when she refused to vacate her seat in the white section of a city bus. This led to a 381 boycott involving 50,000 of most of Montgomery's African-Americans. -
Little Rock Central High School Integration
The desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, gained national attention when Governor Orval Faubus mobilized the Arkansas National Guard in an effort to prevent nine African American students from integrating the high school. -
University of Georgia Integration
This historical event happened when federal district court 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. -
March On Washington/MLK Speech
A quarter of a million Americans from across the United States converged on the nation's capitol in what was to become a defining moment in the Civil Rights movement. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial. It's been said that 200,000 to 300,000 people attended. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson just a few hours after House approval. It ended unequal distribution of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public. -
Nobel Peace Prize
Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his dynamic leadership of the Civil Rights movement and unflagging efforts towards achieving racial justice through nonviolent action. -
The Death of a Legend
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. His killer was named James Earl Ray.
