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In August 1955, a 14 year old African American boy was visiting relatives in Mississippi when he stopped at Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market. There he was accused of whistling at Carol Bryant, a white woman who was a cashier at the store. From there Bryant's husband and his half brother kidnapped Emmett, beat him up and shot him in the head.

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The Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.  The Voting Rights Act is considered one of the most far-reaching pieces of civil rights legislation in U.S. history.

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

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9. Selma to Montgomery March (Bloody Sunday)(Mar 7, 1965)

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9. Selma to Montgomery March (Bloody Sunday)(Mar 7, 1965)

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The Selma to Montgomery march was part of a series of civil rights protests that occurred in 1965 in Alabama. along the 54 mile highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery. On March 7, 1965,  600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S. Route 80. They got only as far as the Edmund Pettus Bridge six blocks away, where state and local lawmen attacked them with billy clubs and tear gas and drove them back into Selma. This was the result of Bloody Sunday.

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In Spring, activist had launched one of the most influential campaigns of the civil rights movement. This campaign included sit-ins at the city hall and boycotts against local merchants all as a way to protest against segregation. The protesters had been met with violent attacks over the next couple of months such as high-pressure hoses and police dogs. This got to the point where it caught John F. Kennedy's attention to which he made a statement about how the events were a turning point in the civil rights movement.

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On August 28, 20,000 demonstrators took part in a march on Washington for jobs and freedom in the capital. This march had been enough to pressure John F. Kennedy into creating a bill that initiated strong federal civil rights. It was this march the Martin Luther King Jr. had given his famous "I Have A Dream" speech.

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4. Sit Ins at Greensboro & Atlanta (1961)

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4. Sit Ins at Greensboro & Atlanta (1961)

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The sit ins at Greensboro was a non-violent protest in North Carolina. Young African American students had a sit in at a lunch counter after being refused lunch. This movement spread to towns in the south. Some protesters were arrested but they made a significant impact. They forced segregating establishments to change their policies.

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Freedom Summer was a voter registration sponsored by civil rights organizations which aimed in increasing black voter registrations in Mississippi. Violent attacks such as beatings and arson followed by police forces and the KKK.

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The actions of an Activist movement which involved interracial groups challenging segregation on public transportation. The riders who were met with hostile force in the deep south garnered heavy media attention. The rides eventually succeeded in securing a ban on segregation by the ICC in all areas under their jurisdiction.

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3. Desegregation at Little Rock, Arkansas (1957)

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3. Desegregation at Little Rock, Arkansas (1957)

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In 1957, there were 9 students known as the Little Rock Nine. They all wanted to go to a school names Central High School. 80 students were accepted, however it dropped to 10. The school told students that they couldn't join sports or performing activities. Although the school was segregated at first, Arkansas governor Orval Faubus led to desegregation of the school.

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2. Montgomery Bus Boycott (Dec. 1955-1956)

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2. Montgomery Bus Boycott (Dec. 1955-1956)

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The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a social protest event against racial segregation in public transport. The protest became popular when Rosa Parks was arrested because she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. Martin Luther King Jr. led a boycott of city busses.

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1. Brown v The Board of Education (Dec. 1952-May 1954)

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1. Brown v The Board of Education (Dec. 1952-May 1954)

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The Brown v The Board of Education was a supreme court case in 1954. Justices ruled that racial segregation of children in schools was unconstitutional. This was led by Cheif Justice Earl Warren. It prohibited segregation in schools and work. The ruling of the court case showed extreme violation(s) of racial segregation in public schools.

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Commonly known as the Watts Rebellion, this was a series of riots that broke out on August 11, 1965, in the black dominated neighborhood of Watts in Los Angeles. It lasted for 6 days, causing $40,000 in damages, overall having 34 deaths, 1,032 injuries, and 4,000 arrests, caused by a traffic stop, one in which stepbrothers Marquette and Ronald Frye were pulled over by a Highway Patrol officer,and a fight broke out between their family and the officers on scene. The crowd around them then rioted, because of what they thought was injustice.

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The Poor People’s Campaign was founded on December 4, 1967, by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to address unemployment rates, housing shortages for the poor, and poverty for a mass majority of the American population. They created a march on April 22 in Washington to overall pressure congress to address the unemployment issue.In the end, it was shut down, it did not reach its expected support number, they had 7,000, yet fell 50,000 short.

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The Albany Movement was a movement that intended to end all forms of racial segregation. Protesters involved used many tactics, the most popular one boycotts, and jail-ins. But on July 27, 1962, King, one of the Albany's leaders, was arrested for a third time, and on August 10, 1962, he was to leave Albany, ending the Albany Movement.

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James H. Meredith, born on June 25, 1933, was a civil rights activist, the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi. He first attended Jackson Sate College, then applied to the University of Mississippi, as a statement to his community.