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Brown V. Board
on May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. This overturned the "separate but equal" ruling, which led Jim crow laws to prevail in the south. It led both schools and public places to be segregation free. -
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
On December 1, 1955, African American civil rights activist Rosa Parks would not give up her seat on a public bus to a white passenger. At that time the rule was that the white man had to sit in the front of the bus while the people of color had to move back. She was arrested and this ignited a flame that would never be out again. -
The Greensboro Four and the Sit-In Movement
It was four freshmen at the university of Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina that decided to sit on a lunch counter that had a "whites only" rule. Their service was refused and they were asked to leave. However, they did not! The Greensboro four (as they liked to be called) stayed all night until closing. They showed up the next day with twenty more students. The protests grew and grew and many months later, facilities began to desegregate throughout the country!
