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Brown v. Board of Education
This court case declared that segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional. This case overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson case of separate but equal. -
Rosa Parks arrested for not giving up her bus seat
Rosa parks was born on February 4, 1913. Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. This action against segregation started a citywide bus boycott and helped launch nationwide efforts against segregation in buses and public transportation. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
President Eisenhower signed Civil rights act on September 9, 1957, primarily a voting rights bill, was the first civil rights legislation passed by Congress in the United States since the 1866 and 1875 Acts. -
Little Rock, Arkansas events
The Little Rock events was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School. Their enrollment was followed by white mobs and riots, in which the students were prevented from entering the school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. They then attended after President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent the 101st airborne division. -
Students stage a sit-in
Despite advances in the fight for racial equality segregation was still across the south United States in 1960. Early that year, a non-violent protest by young African-American students at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, sparked a sit-in movement that soon spread to college towns throughout the region. -
Bus segregation outlawed
The outlaw of bus segregation didn't just happen on its own. It all started when Rosa Parks wouldn't give up her seat to a white man, after that event there was a huge nationwide boycott towards the buses and other public transportation. -
Attack on the Freedom Riders
The Freedom riders were a group of multiracial civil rights activists the rode segregated buses to try and promote civil rights. They were met by a white mob at the bus station where the bus was firebombed and the passengers were beaten. But this act of civil right helped prove that bus segregation was unconstitutional. -
James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss
James Meredith enrolled at a segregated school and the whites didn't like that. After James enrolled riots broke out all over the campus and state marshals were sent to try and control the riots and mobs. The marshals were told that they couldn't shoot. Bricks were thrown and shots were fired and in the end many people were hospitalized. -
Medgar Evers Assassinated
Medgar Evers was a well known civil rights activist that joined the NAACP to help fight for civil rights. Medgar Evers was assassinated after he got out of his car and was shot by a rifle. Medgar Evers was rushed to a hospital but he was initially refused to enter because of his race but he was later let in but then died int the hospital. -
March on Washington
250,000 Americans marched on Washington to declare civil rights. The march was an unprecedented success as the marches enjoyed a day of speeches and singing songs. It was on the march to Washington were Martin Luther King Jr. made his famous "I have a dream" speech. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It ended unequal voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at jobs and by places that served the public. -
March to Selma
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference made Selma, Alabama, the focus of its efforts to register black voters in the South. Protesters marching from Selma to the state capital were met with violence by state troopers. The protesters finally achieved their goal, walking around the clock for three days to reach Montgomery. -
Black deputy killed by nightriders
Deputy Sheriff Oneal Moore was shot and killed when he and his partner were ambushed while on patrol. A pickup truck pulled up alongside their patrol car and an occupant in the truck's bed opened fire. -
Seminary student killed by deputy
Jonathan Myrick Daniels was an Episcopal seminarian and civil rights activist. In 1965 he was murdered by a shotgun-wielding construction worker, Tom Coleman, who was a special county deputy -
Police Fire on Protsestors
Benjamin Brown was a twenty-one year old truck driver and civil rights activist living in Jackson, Mississippi, when he was shot in the back, on the evening of May 11, 1967, by local police officers during a student protest -
Thurgood Marshall first black justice
On October 2, 1967, Marshall was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice, becoming the first African American to serve on the nation's highest court. Marshall joined the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren, which aligned with Marshall's views on politics and the Constitution. -
Martin Luther king Jr. Assassinated
U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. A Baptist minister and founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, King had led the civil rights movement since the mid-1950s, using a combination of powerful words and non-violent tactics such as sit-ins, boycotts and protest marches
