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Under President Truman, this executive order desegregated the armed services. The order was issued on July 26th.

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This Supreme Court decision desegregated schools and, by technicality, all public facilities. This undid the previous decision of Plessy v Furgeson, in which the "separate but equal" ruling paved the way for Jim Crow laws that heavily segregated the nation.

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On December 1st, Rosa Parks willingly refused to give her front seat up to a white man on a bus which was segregated. She was subsequently arrested by the Montgomery police, sparking what was initially meant to be a one day protest in the city. However, a rising activist by the name of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. called for a mass movement against segregation.

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The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and a social protest campaign that lasted over a year against the policy of racial segregation. It was a foundational event in the civil rights movement in the United States. This later led to a Supreme Court decision declaring that Montgomery's segregation laws on buses were unconstitutional.  (1956)

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On the first day of nine African-American students' high school year, a white mob and the Arkansas National Guard prevented them from entering Little Rock Central High School. Over the next few weeks, President Eisenhower met with the governor and mayor to deescalate the situation, which went as far as having the students be escorted by US soldiers in order to protect them from violence.

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Greensboro, NC Lunch Counter Sit-In (1960)

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Greensboro, NC Lunch Counter Sit-In (1960)

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The Greensboro, NC Lunch Counter Sit-ins were peaceful civil rights protests that took place from February to July 1960. They were led by a group of African American college students. The sit-in was at a segregated lunch counter and they refused to leave after being told to.

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Over the summer of 1961, a group of Black and white Americans traveled across the South through public transit in order to see firsthand how well-enforced desegregation of public facilities was. They were met with intense backlash for using the opposite facilities intended for them, the worst of it occurring in South Carolina where they were firebombed and brutally beaten. However, other groups of these "Freedom Riders" popped up across the nation, and the ICC would better enforce the desegregation policy as a result.

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"Letter From Birmingham Jail" by MLK (1963)

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"Letter From Birmingham Jail" by MLK (1963)

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While Martin Luther King Jr. was in Jail, on April 16, 1963, for leading a march of black protesters he wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" in response to the people that disagreed with his march.

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From May 2 to May 3, 1963, Rev. James Bevel organized a march of over 1,000 students in Birmingham, Alabama. The purpose of the march was to walk to the mayor and talk about segregation in their city.

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Medgar Evers was an American black civil rights activist in Mississippi. He became a target for those who opposed racial equality and desegregation. He was later shot in the back in the driveway of his home in Jackson, Mississippi. (June 12, 1963)

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On August 28th, roughly 250,000 individuals gathered in Washington, DC in order to bring attention to the various civil rights abuses marginalized communities faced in the US. MLK famously gave his "I Have a Dream" speech, although other speeches were given by some of the other event organizers such as John Lewis and Whitney Young.

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Birmingham 16th Street Church Bombing (1963)

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Birmingham 16th Street Church Bombing (1963)

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On September 15, 1963, there was a white supremacist terrorist bombing on the 16th Street Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Four little girls were killed and people were also injured.

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On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United states, was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald. He was taken to the hospital but died 30 minutes later at the age of 46.

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In June 1964, the Freedom Summer Project, a volunteer campaign, wanted to register as many African American voters as they could in Mississippi. Many people were beaten and injured in their attempt. Although, their attempt to register as many African Americans as possible wasn't successful it was one of the reasons the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed.

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark to civil rights and labor law in the United States. It outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, and later sexual orientation and gender identity. It also strengthened the enforcement of voting rights and the desegregation of schools.

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Malcolm X was an African American Muslim Minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. He was also a African American leader in the Nation of Islam who articulated concepts of race pride and Black nationalism in the early 1960's. He was then later assassinated by leader Elijah Muhammad after beginning to disillusion with the Nation of Islam.

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Bloody Sunday of Selma to Montgomery March (1965)

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Bloody Sunday of Selma to Montgomery March (1965)

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On March 7th, MLK organized a march from Selma to Montgomery in order to protest Black voter suppression. However, they were met by local law enforcement which brutally attacked the crowd with tear gas, beatings, and even gunfire. The media's coverage and the subsequent public response led to the creation of the Voting Rights Act.

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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War. This act was signed into law 95 years after the amendment was ratified.

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Loving v Virginia was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court. The court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. Overall, it was a case in which the court held the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits governments from discriminating against individuals on the basis of race.

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Martin Luther King was an African American Baptist minister and activist. He was also the most prominent leader of the American civil rights movement. On April 4th, 1968, as he stood on the second floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel, where he was to lead a march, he was assassinated by James Earl Ray. (Hatred was the reason for his doing)