Famous desegregation ruling by the Supreme Court. It overturned the previous Plessy v. Ferguson ruling, which claimed segregation was legal as long as it was equal.
Starting with Rosa Park's refusal to give up her seat in the front of the bus the Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted one year. African Americans refused to ride the buses in Montgomery Alabama
After Brown vs. Board ruling, nine African American students were chosen to desegregate Little Rock Central High School. Arkansas Governor, Orval Faubus sent the Arkansas National Guard to block these students from entering the school on September 4th. By September 25th, President Eisenshower was forced to send member of U.S. Army's 101st Airbone Division to help escort the nine African American students into the school.
Starting in Greensboro, North Carolina in February, the sit-in campaigns lasted until the end of July 1960. It all started with four African American college students sat down to eat at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter and refused to leave when they were refused service.
Trying to test the 1960 Boyton vs. Virginia Supreme Court decision 13 individuals, seven African Americans and six Whites, left Washington D.C. traveling by bus to New Orleans, Louisiana. Violence eventually resulted when an African American tried to sit in a Whites-Only waiting area. Freedom Rides went on through out the summer, with violence being prevalent. In the fall of 1961, due to pressure of the Kennedy administration, the Interstate Commerce Commission was forced to reinforce desegregation of interstate transit terminals.
Mass protest in Washington, D.C. that sought for the civil rights of African Americans. More than 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial and the event included Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
The Civil Rights Act was a landmark piece of legislation, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination based on race, gender, color, religion, or nation of origin. The bill was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 2, 1964.
Trying to stage a peaceful march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, state troopers brutally assaulted demonstrators on Sunday March 7th 1965. This event shocked Americans and led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
President Johnson signed into law, a bill that helped strengthened the 15th Amendment, which guaranteed all African Americans the right to vote. It help bar preventative measures that southern states had been using to deter African Americans from voting in the South, such as poll tax and literacy tests.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee a day after giving a speech at the Mason Temple Church in Memphis. Although the Civil Rights Movement continued it was the end of an era of the movement under the leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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