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Assassination of Matin Luther King
On the night April 3,1860, King gave a speech at the Mason Temple church in Memphis. -
The Klu Klux Klan
Six Confederate veterans from Pulaski,Tennessee created the original Ku Klux Klan on December 24,1865, during the Reconstruction of the South after the civil war. -
First Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1866,14 St at 27-30, enacted April 19,1866, who was the first United States federal law to define citizenship and affairs that all citizens are equally protected by the law -
Second Civil Rights Act
The Bill was passed by the 43rd United States Ulysses S.Grant on March 1,1875. -
Please v Ferguson
On Jayne 7,1892, Plessy bought a first-class ticket at the press street deport and boarded a whites only car of East Louisiana Railroad in New Orleans, Louisiana, bound for Covington, Louisiana. -
Arrest of Martin Luther King in Alabama
1944 MLK wins an Oratory contest on April 17,1944 with a speech entitled "The Negro and The Constitution." At age fifteen he graduates from Booker T. Washington High School and is admitted to Morehouse college (Atlanta) on September 20. -
Committee on Civil Rights
The President's Committee on Civil Rights (PCCR) was established by Executive order 9808, when Harry Truman, who was then president of the United States, issued on December 5,1946. -
Jackie Robinson
Robinson broke the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodges started him at first base on April 15,1947 -
A.Phillip Randolph
Only July 26, 1948, president Harry S.Truman abolished racial segregation in the armed forces through Executive order 9987. -
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka Kansas
Handed down on May 17,1954, the Warren Court's unanimous (9-0) decision started that "separate education facilities are inherently unequal." -
Black Panthers
The initial phase of the black protest activity in the post- Brown period began on December 1,1955. -
James Meredith
On March 14,1956 two and a half months later after they met, Meredith married Mary June Wiggins. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa parks on a Montgomery bus on December 21, 1956, the day Montgomery's public transportation system was legalley integrated. -
Elizabeth Eckford
Elizabeth Eckford is one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who,in 1957, were the first black students ever attend classes at Little Rock central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas -
Voting Rights Act
The new legislation was proposed by president Dwight D. Eisenhower in his message to the 86h congress on February 5,1959, when he started"that every individual regardless of his race,religion, or national origin is entitled to the equal protection of the laws. -
Anne Moody
On May 28,1963, in Jackson, Miss., she several other activists dat down at the Woolworth lunch counter reserved for white customers -
Black Power movement at its peak
An early manifestation of Black power in popular culture was the performances given by Nina Simone at Carnegie Hall in March 31,1964, and the album in concert which resulted from them. -
Governor Faubus
On September 2,1957, Faubus called out National Guard to block the admission of nine black pupils to Central High School.
