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Brown versus Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, was a landmark in a United States Supreme Court case that the Court declared state laws making separate public schools for black and white students. -
New Orleans school integration
Desegregation is a policy that was introduced to black students to all-white schools, it was ordered by a Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board Education of Topeka in 1954. On November 14, 1960 there were two New Orleans elementary schools that were desegregated. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks, seated in a segregated bus, she had refused to give up her seat to a white man. It created the 13-month Montgomery Bus Boycott that resulted in an early victory for the Civil Rights movement. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
President Eisenhower signed into law in the Civil Rights Act of 1957. It was proposed by Attorney General Herbert Brownell, the Act marked the first occasion since Reconstruction that the federal government undertook legislative action to protect civil rights. -
Highlander Folk School 25th Anniversary
Martin Luther King joined with the staff and the participants of a leadership training conference at Highlander Folk School to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Myles Horton, a student that went to Reinhold Niebuhr, made the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee. -
Temple Bombing (Atlanta, Ga.)
The Temple housed a Reform Jewish group. The building was damaged by a dynamite explosion, although no one was injured. Five suspects were arrested after the bombing. One of the people who did it was George Bright, he was tried twice. -
Augusta Movement
Students from Augusta's black Paine College set up the direct action phase of the city's Civil Rights movement when they organized sit in's at area department stores. Biracial negotiations ensued, but the white negotiating committee ultimately reneged on their commitment to desegregate the city's lunch counters. -
Freedom rights
Seven blacks and six whites left Washington D.C., on two public buses headed for the Deep South. They intended to test the Supreme Court's ruling in Boynton v. Virginia, which then declared segregation in the interstate bus and rail stations to be unconstitutional. -
Albany Movement
The Albany Movement was a desegregation coalition formed in Georgia, on November 17, 1961, by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. -
Selma-Montgomery March
Martin Luther King led thousands of demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Alabama. it was a 54-mile march from Alabama, where local African Americans, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Southern Christian Conference.
