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Plessy vs Ferguson
The Plessy vs Ferguson was a landmark constitutional law case of the US Supreme Court. -
Brown vs the Topeka Board of Education
The Court establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional the decision overturned the Plessy vs Ferguson -
The little rock nine
The little rock nine was a group of nine African American students that go to an all white school -
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Greensboro Four
Greensboro sitins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1960, which led to the Wool worth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States. -
James Meredith / University of Mississippi
James is a civil rights movement figure, writer, political adviser and Air Force veteran was the first African American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi in 1962 -
Murder of Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers civil rights activist and field secretary for the NAACP in Mississippi was shot in the back while walking up to his house. The gun was found with fingerprints the suspect was white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith -
March on Washington 1963
More than 250,000 demonstrators descended upon the nation's capital to participate in the "March on Washington for jobs and freedom." -
Birmingham Church Bombing
The four girls killed in the bombing clockwise from top left, Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Robertson and Carol Denise McNair.
This was an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on Sunday, September 15, 1963, when four members of the Ku Klux Klan planted 15 sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device beneath the front steps of the church. -
Civil rights Act 1964
The civil rights act is where the United States outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Voting Rights Act 1965
The voting rights act would help the African Americans have the right to vote.