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Harry Truman issues this order to end segregation in the armed forces.
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This case effectively ends segregation in public schools, but many schools decide to stay segregated.
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Little Rock school board adopts plan to have limited integration of Central High.
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A boy named Emmett Till is kidnapped and murdered in Money Mississippi, creating lots of uproar from the anti-segregationists, because they thought his death was for nothing.
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Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. This starts the Montgomery bus boycott.
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After Rosa Parks stands her ground on a bus, a boycott sparks in which black people refuse to ride city buses.
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The NAACP files suit and forces integration. Eighty -five percentage of the people in Arkansas are against integration.
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The nine people who signed up to go to Central High School learn they will start in the fall term.
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Governer Faunus uses the National Guard to block the integrating students from entering school.
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Nine students integrate Central High School in Arkansas, they are met with harassment and insults. Eventually, President Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne to protect them.
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Helps protect voter rights. Allows prosecution of people who affect someone's rights to vote.
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Eisenhower agrees to give Faunus a ten day respite to sort out his response.
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The 101st Airborne is called in to enforce integration.
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FBU director J. Edgar Hoover accuses Faubus of disseminating falsehoods that students were held for hours of questioning.
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Melba has acid sprayed in her face. Danny, her body guard, washes it out of her eyes and saves her from going blind.
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Half of the 101st soldiers leave Little Rock
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Minnijean is suspended after she drops chili on two boys. This gave a segregationists a boost and they campaigned even harder.
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When Melba was being chased by her attackers, a white boy, Link, lets her use his car to get away. This starts a friendship.
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"They bother you all the time." Says student. Minnijean explains all the pressure she's under.
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Minnijean is Expelled from Central after a forty minutes hearing. This is a devastating defeat for anti-segregationists.
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Ernest Green is the first black person to receive a diploma from Central High School.
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Four college students spark a sit-in when they sit at the whites counter and demand to be served.
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Approximately 250,000 people march on Washington. This is when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gives the famous "I have a dream" speech.
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A bomb at a church in Alabama kills four girls and injures many others.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, preventing employment discrimination due to race, color, sex, religion or national origin.
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Black religious leader Malcolm X is Assassinated during a rally by members of the Nation of Islam.
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In the Selma to Montgomery March, around 600 civil rights marchers walk to Selma, Alabama to Montgomery—the state’s capital—in protest of black voter suppression.
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President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to prevent the use of literacy tests as a voting requirement.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated on the balcony of his hotel room in Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray is convicted of the murder in 1969.
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President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, providing equal housing opportunity regardless of race, religion or national origin.
