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Was a landmark Supreme Court Case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation against children in public schools was unconstitutional. The Brown vs the Board of Education case was one of the cornerstones of the civil rights movement and helped set the precedent for separate-but-equal education.

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A civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. In the end, the US Supreme Court ordered Montgomery to integrate its bus system. Martin Luther King Jr., a young pastor, emerged as a prominent leader of the American Civil Rights Movement.

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14 year old Emmitt Till was visiting family in Money, Mississippi, when he was brutally murdered for flirting with a white women. The men who murdered Emmitt made him carry a 75 lb cotton gin fan to the bank of the Tallahatchie River and made him take off his clothes. Then the men beat him close to death, gouged out his eye, shot him in the head, then tied the fan to him and tossed him into the river.

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Was a group of 9 African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school.

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Greensboro sit-ins, SNCC, & Freedom riders

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Greensboro sit-ins, SNCC, & Freedom riders

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The Greensboro Sit-Ins were non-violent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, which lasted from February 1, 1960 to July 25, 1960. The protests led to the Woolworth Department Store chain ending its policy of racial segregation in its stores in the southern United States. The Greensboro Sit-Ins were the first prominent sit-ins of the civil rights movement.

The SNCC, or Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, was a civil-rights group formed to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil rights movement. The SNCC soon became one of the movement’s more radical branches. In the wake of the Greensboro sit-in at a lunch counter closed to blacks, Ella Baker, then director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), helped set up the first meeting of what became the SNCC. She was concerned that SCLC, led by Martin Luther King Jr., was out of touch with younger blacks who wanted the movement to make faster progress. Baker encouraged those who formed SNCC to look beyond integration to broader social change and to view King’s principle of nonviolence more as a political tactic than a way of life.

Freedom Riders were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals. Freedom Riders tried to use “whites-only” restrooms and lunch counters at bus stations in Alabama, South Carolina and other Southern states. The groups were confronted by arresting police officers—as well as horrific violence from white protestors—along their routes, but also drew international attention to their cause.

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On Sunday, 15th September, 1963, a white man was seen getting out of a white and turquoise Chevrolet car and placing a box under the steps of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Soon afterwards, at 10.22 a.m., the bomb exploded killing Denise McNair (11), Addie Mae Collins (14), Carole Robertson (14) and Cynthia Wesley (14). The four girls had been attending Sunday school classes at the church. Twenty-three other people were also hurt by the blast.

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When about 600 people started a planned march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, on Sunday March 7, 1965, it was called a demonstration. When state troopers met the demonstrators at the edge of the city by the Edmund Pettus Bridge, that day became known as "Bloody Sunday."

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Freedom Summer & murder of 3 civil rights workers (1964) 

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Freedom Summer & murder of 3 civil rights workers (1964) 

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Nonviolent effort made by civil rights activists to integrate Mississippi's segregated political system during 1964. Black Mississippians were barred from the Democratic Party, they challenged the right of the Party's all-white delegation to represent the state at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in August. Since blacks weren't allowed to vote, they had organized a "Freedom vote." Residents and volunteers were met by extreme violence, including murders, bombings, kidnappings, and torture. A lot of it was covered on national television and focused the country's attention on civil rights issues for the first time. On the project's first day, three workers (James Chaney, Mickey Schwerner and Andrew Goodman) were kidnapped and murdered by opposing The search for their killers dominated the national news and focused public attention on Mississippi until their bodies were discovered on August 4.

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Spring of of 1963, more than 4,000 African American children had organized to leave their classrooms at 11 am on D-Day. The police, in response to the children's peaceful protest, police had tried to stop them. Children at the protest were arrested, each time more students would replace them. BY the end of the day nearly 1,000 students had been arrested. The next day, thousand more students had left their classrooms to assemble at 6th Street church. With jails filled with yesterday's protesters, orders were given out to "disperse them with firehouses."

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The Black Panthers, also known as the Black Panther Party, was a political organization founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to challenge police brutality against the African American community. Dressed in black berets and black leather jackets, the Black Panthers organized armed citizen patrols of Oakland and other U.S. cities. At its peak in 1968, the Black Panther Party had roughly 2,000 members. The organization later declined as a result of internal tensions, deadly shootouts and FBI counterintelligence activities aimed at weakening the organization.

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Massive civil rights march protest taking place in August of 1963 where nearly 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. The intention behind this protest was to call attention to the continuing challenges and inequalities that are faced by the African Americans of the U.S. Was also the occasion of Martin Luther's famous "I Have a Dream Speech," were he expresses his vision of a better and brighter America where prejudice is unheard of.

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Memphis and the Poor people's March 1968

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Memphis and the Poor people's March 1968

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Campaign against against economic injustice in 1968 organized by MLK. The campaign had demanded for  demanded economic and human rights for poor Americans of diverse backgrounds. After presenting their own organized "set of demands" to Congress and executive agencies, they had set up a 3,000-person protest camp at the Washington Mall, where they stayed for six weeks.

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Occurred at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New York. On September 9th, 1971, about 2,200 inmates rioted and took over the prison, holding 42 officers hostage. During the next 4 days, the police negotiated for 28 of the prisoners demands. As a result of the riot, several changes in the New York prison system were changed in order to satisfy some of the inmates, reduce tension in the system, and prevent future rebellions. In the end, 43 people died, 33 of them were inmates.