Orlando, Florida, hires its first black police officers.
The home of NAACP activists Harry and Harriette Moore in Mims, Florida, is bombed by KKK group; both die of injuries.
The Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL) is founded in Cleveland, Mississippi by T.R.M. Howard, Amzie Moore, Aaron Henry, and other civil rights activists
Eleven black students attend the first day of school at Claymont High School, Delaware, becoming the first black students in the 17 segregated states to integrate a white public school. The day occurs without incident or notice by the community.
Executive Order 10479 signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower establishes the anti-discrimination Committee on Government Contracts.
U.S. Supreme Court rules that Mexican Americans and all other racial groups in the United States are entitled to equal protection under the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
In Montgomery, Alabama, 23 black children are prevented from attending all-white elementary schools, defying the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
University of Oklahoma decides to allow black students.
Georgia Senate votes to declare the 14th and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution null and void in that state.
Willie O'Ree breaks the color barrier in the National Hockey League, in his first game playing for the Boston Bruins.
Thirteen blacks arrested for sitting in front of bus in Birmingham.
Alabama passes laws to limit black voter registration
