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The Supreme Court ruled separate, but equal
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The Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation of schools was unconstitutional.
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The abduction and brutal murder of 14 year old Emmett Till emerging the civil rights movement.
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By refusing to give up her seat Rosa Parks helped start the civil rights movement,
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Civil Right's protest when African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama
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President Eisenhower sent troops to Central Highschool.
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Four black college students sat at a "whites only" lunch counter and refused to leave when denied service.
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13 CORE Members traveled from Washington to New Orleans in a bus, through the way they used "whites only" restrooms.
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Martin Luther King is jailed for protesting in the most segregated city.
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Martin Luther King introduced his famous "I Have A Dream" speech.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights law.
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Alabama state troopers and local police attacked peaceful protesters coming from Selma to Montgomery
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting rights law and outlawed literacy test
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250,000 people marched on Washington to demand immediate passage of the civil rights bill
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On this day Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee
