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1973
This case restricted laws placed on abortions. Roe alleged that she was unmarried and pregnant; that she wished to terminate her pregnancy by an abortion "performed by a competent, licensed physician, under safe, clinical conditions.

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1972
Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 U.S. 205, is the case in which the United States Supreme Court found that Amish children could not be placed under compulsory education past 8th grade due to personal values and beliefs.

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1972
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) was created by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to eliminate discrimination in all aspects of employment. Title VII has since been amended in 1972, 1978, and 1991. The EEOC has adopted functions of the Equal Opportunity Coordinating Council, which was abolished in 1978, and the CSC.

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1968
This is also referred to as the Fair Housing Act, barred discriminatory practices in the advertising, sale, rental, or financing of most dwellings. The act specifically prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin.

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April 4, 1968
MLK, the most important leader of the nonviolent civil rights movement in the United States, was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968. His death sparked an enormous wave of rioting and looting in urban areas throughout the nation and brought the idealistic phase of civil rights agitation to a close.

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1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is possibly the most successful civil rights act ever passed by Congress. The law was enacted on August 6, 1965, with the support of President Lyndon B. Johnson. It was the first national law to guarantee fully the voting rights of all Americans.

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1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, a landmark in American legal history, provided much of the legal basis for the modern civil rights movement. Enacted on July 2, 1964.

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1964
Amendment that prohibited the federal and state governments from imposing poll taxes before a citizen can participate in a federal election.
It granted former slaves the right to vote.

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August 28, 1963
250,000 demonstrators from all across the country went to the nation's capital to participate in the March on Washington. Not only was this march the largest demonstration for human rights in U.S. history, but it also showcased, for the first time, unity among the various civil rights organizations.

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1963
This was a nonviolent protest organized by the Southern Christian Leadership conference to protest racial discrimination. The SCLC led a series of boycotts and peaceful demonstrations in the city's downtown area. One of the most segregated cities of the South, Birmingham turned violent in May as the police attempted to suppress the protests.

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April 12, 1963
Martin Luther King Jr. composed a letter from his prison cell in Birmingham, Alabama, in response to local religious leaders' criticisms of the campaign.

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1961
A landmark event during the civil rights movement, the 1961 Freedom Rides were a series of organized interstate bus rides meant to directly confront discriminatory Jim Crow Laws found in the Southern states.

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February 1, 1960
The Greensboro sit ins were a series of demonstrations by African American college students at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina The sit-ins, which were staged in an effort to end racial inequalities in the South, began on February 1, 1960.

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December 1, 1955
Rosa Parks was a well known civil rights activist. She is best known for not giving up her seat on the bus. She is also called the  mother of the civil rights movement.

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1950s
Attempts to desegregate a school in Arkansas. Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in the 1950s became national news when Gov. Orval Faubus deployed the state national guard to prevent nine African American students from entering the school. The crisis drew attention to the enforcement of the Brown v. Board of Education decision and fueled the growing civil rights movement.

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1955
Till was an African American teenager who was murdered by two white men because he was making "advances" towards  white women. After making a flirting remark, he was killed later that day. An act that outraged the nation.

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Desegregation of armed forces: EXECUTIVE ORDER 9981

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Desegregation of armed forces: EXECUTIVE ORDER 9981

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1948
Through this order by Harry Truman, racial segregation in American Armed forces.  It abolished racial discrimination in the United States Armed Forces and eventually led to the end of segregation in the services.

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1945
Jackie Robinson was the first African American baseball player to receive a paying contract to play major league baseball. Robinson wore the number 42 and had his number retired. He was one of the most athletic, croud pleasing players to play.

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1877
The goal of the 15th amendment was to eliminate voting discrimination due to race or nationality. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

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July 1868

The 14th amendment's goal was to increase the rights of minorities through the nation. It sparked a serious need for a revision of the U.S constitution. Because slaves had not counted as a whole person previously, this caused for serious change.

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1787
The 13th amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude as a crime. It was added to the constitution in 1787.