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Brown v. Board of Education
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education was a watershed event in the history of the United States. -
Emmett Till
On August 28, 1955, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped and murdered in Money, Mississippi. For whistling at a white women. -
Rosa Parks
Local authorities in Montgomery, Alabama, arrested Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, when she refused to vacate her seat in the white section of a city bus on December 1, 1955, she was then arrested. As word of her arrest sparked outrage and support, Parks unwittingly became the “mother of the modern day civil rights movement.” MLK lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott. -
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
On September 9, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1957 -
"The Temple.”
In the early hours of October 12, 1958, fifty sticks of dynamite exploded in a recessed entrance way at the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation, Atlanta's oldest and most prominent synagogue, more commonly known as "the Temple.” -
C.O.R.E
On May 4, 1961, an interracial group of student activists under the auspices of the Congress of Racial Equality departed Washington D.C. by bus to test local compliance throughout the Deep South with two Supreme Court rulings banning segregated accommodations on interstate buses and in bus terminals that served interstate routes. -
NAACP
In July 1962, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People held its annual convention in Atlanta. -
Birmingham, Alabama
The bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, was one of the deadliest acts of violence to take place during the Civil Rights movement and evoked criticism and outrage from around the world. -
John F. Kennedy
On November 22, 1963 President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in a presidential motorcade -
NYC Boycott
In one of the largest demonstrations of the Civil Rights movement, hundreds of thousands of parents, students and civil rights advocates took part in a citywide boycott of the New York City public school system to demonstrate their support for the full integration of the city's public schools and an end to de facto segregation. -
Assassination
On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated by a sniper's bullet while standing on the second-floor balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
