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1972
Wisconsin v. Yoder, is the case in which the United States Supreme Court found that Amish children could not be placed under compulsory education past 8th grade. The parents' fundamental right to freedom of religion outweighed the state's interest in educating its children. The case is often cited as a basis for parents' right to educate their children outside of traditional private or public schools.

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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission   

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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission   

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Jul 2nd 1965
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is a federal agency that administers and enforces civil rights laws against workplace discrimination. The EEOC investigates discrimination complaints based on an individual's race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, disability, gender identity, genetic information, and retaliation for reporting, participating in, and/or opposing a discriminatory practice.

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Apr 11th 1968
The Civil Rights Act of 1968 defines housing discrimination as the “refusal to sell or rent a dwelling to any person because of his race, color, religion, or national origin”. Title VIII of this Act is commonly referred to as the Fair Housing Act of 1968.

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Apr 4th 1968
Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American clergyman and civil rights leader who was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on Thursday, April 4, 1968, at the age of 39.

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Jul 2nd 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is the nation's premier civil rights legislation. The Act outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, required equal access to public places and employment, and enforced desegregation of schools and the right to vote.

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Aug 6th 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. It was signed into law by LBJ  during the height of the American Civil Rights Movement, and Congress later amended the Act five times to expand its protections.

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Jan 23rd 1963
The Twenty-fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. This was due to the confederacy poll taxes that they implemented in the South.

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1973
Roe v. Wade. Roe v. Wade, case decided in 1973 by the U.S. Supreme Court. Along with Doe v. Bolton, this decision legalized abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy. The decision, written by Justice Harry Blackmun and based on the residual right of privacy, struck down dozens of state antiabortion statutes.

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Aug 28th 1963
The march on Washington was just like many other recent protests it brought it right to the capitol and demanded the rights of all to be upheld.

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1963
Birmingham was one of the most racially divided cities in the United States, both as enforced by law and culturally. Black citizens faced legal and economic disparities, and violent retribution when they attempted to draw attention to their problems.Protests in Birmingham began with a boycott led by Shuttlesworth meant to pressure business leaders to open employment to people of all races, and end segregation in public facilities, restaurants, schools, and stores. When local business and governmental leaders resisted the boycott, SCLC agreed to assist.

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April 16th 1963
In a quick summary Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and sent to jail because he and others were protesting the treatment of blacks in Birmingham, Alabama.

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July 26th 1948
This was an executive Order from Harry Truman who abolished racial discrimination in the United States Armed Forces and eventually led to the end of segregation in the services.

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May 4th 1961
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode buses into the segregated south in order to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. The South  ignored the rulings and the federal government did nothing to enforce them.

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Feb 1st 1960
Four black students peacefully protested in North Carolina by refusing to abide by the spate eatery rules which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in restaurants in the South.

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Sep 19th 1957
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine black students who were enrolled into a local white school in order to desegregate the schools gradually.

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Dec 1st 1955
This was the day that Rosa Parks said No to sitting in the back of the bus when a white passenger told her to move and was deemed the first lady of civil rights.

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Year he played for the Dodgers Apr 15th 1947
Jackie was the first black baseball player in the Major Leagues.

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Died Aug 28th 1955
Emmett Till was a black teenager who was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14 because he was reported to be flirting with a white woman

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Feb 3rd 1870
This amendment prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based off of their race or background.

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Jul 9th 1868
This amendment provides equal rights and citizenship to African Americans and equal protection under law.

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Jan. 31st 1865
This amendment declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."