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The Harlem Riot of 1964 was Harlem´s first race riot which was sparked by the beating of a teenage shoplifter and black pride, the unemployment crisis, poor living conditions, and resentment towards white people and the police force.

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It was a movement organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to bring attention to the unequal treatment that African Americans endured in Birmingham, Alabama.

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It was a protest where 4 African American students from the N.C. Agricultural and Technical College sat down at white only lunch counters and were denied service. (Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr., and David Richmond).

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In 1966, a boy named Meredith planned a solitary walk from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi. In hopes of encouraging African Americans to vote and to end the fear of African Americans living in America, specifically of those living in Mississippi.

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a campaign in the US launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African American voters in Mississippi as possible. (Aka the Mississippi Summer Project)

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Integration of the University of Alabama, Jun 11, 1963

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Integration of the University of Alabama, Jun 11, 1963

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An event where African Americans attempted to desegregate the University of Alabama.

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The Ole Miss riot of 1962 was fought between Southern segregationist civilians and federal and state forces.

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a march where 250,000 people walked in Washington to the Lincoln Memorial. African Americans, European Americans, Christians, Jews, the elderly, the youth, the rich and the poor participated. This march was organized with the aim to acquire equal employment, integration, and civil rights.

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Audobon Ballroom Management, Broadway, New York, NY, USA

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On Feb 21, 1965 Malcolm X went to speak at the Manhattan Audubon Ballroom while speaking three gunmen rushed to Malcolm and shot him 15 times. He was pronounced dead on arrival at New York´s Colombia Presbyterian Hospital.

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A riot started by a chain of events that built up tension between white police force enforcement and Black Civilians in the community.

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a march by hundreds of school students in Birmingham, Alabama during the American Civil Rights Movement´s Birmingham Campaign. This march tells the story of how the young people of Birmingham braved fire hoses and police dogs and brought segregation to its knees.

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Birmingham Church Bombing, September 15, 1963

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Birmingham Church Bombing, September 15, 1963

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a bomb exploded before Sunday morning service at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963. Majority of the congregation were black, it also served as a meeting place for civil rights leaders. On this day four young girls were killed and many others injured.

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Bloody Sunday of the Civil Rights Movement, Mar 7, 1965 - Mar 21, 1965

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Bloody Sunday of the Civil Rights Movement, Mar 7, 1965 - Mar 21, 1965

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a nonviolent civil rights march that took place in Selma, Alabama. It was here that the march was conducted and around 600 people marched along. The actions that took place within this peaceful march were enough to truly change the minds of some American´s of segregation and inequality.

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a series of violent confrontations between people from mainly African American neighborhoods of Detroit and the city´s police department. It lasted more than five days, and more than 7,000 people were arrested; more than 1,000 buildings were burned in the uprising.

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The Selma Marches were huge in Civil Rights Movement. Some of the Marches were ¨Bloody Sunday¨, ¨Turn-around Tuesday¨, and ¨The March to Montgomery¨.

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Martin Luther King Jr. was leading a peaceful march for underpaid sanitation workers on April 4, 1968. It was during the night when King had checked into a motel and was standing on the balcony in front of his room where he was suddenly shot. The bullet entered his right cheek, traveled down to his neck, and stopped at his shoulder blade. King was rushed to a hospital, but was pronounced dead an hour later.

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A group of thirteen African American and white civil rights activists started the Freedom Rides on May 4, 1961. The Freedom Rides were a series of bus trips through the American South to protest against segregation in interstate bus terminals.

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Nine African American high school students attempted to integrate Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. (Minnijean Brown, Terrence Roberts, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Patillo, Gloria Ray, Jefferson Thomas, and Carlotta Walls).

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Montgomery Bus Boycott, Dec 5, 1955 - Dec 20, 1956

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Montgomery Bus Boycott, Dec 5, 1955 - Dec 20, 1956

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an event that took place in the 1950´s where African Americans refused to ride the bus, to protest segregated seating.

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A lawsuit to abolish the segregation of education systems, to stop the separation of blacks and whites.

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A brutal and racially encouraged murder of 14 year old Emmett Till marked what was the beginning of the Civil Rights movement.

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Plessey v. Ferguson Decision, May 18, 1896

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Plessey v. Ferguson Decision, May 18, 1896

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a case that dealt with the Supreme Court deciding to ratify the constitutionality of the state laws that required racial segregation in private businesses, under the doctrine ¨separate but equal.¨ The decision was made by a seven to one vote, in favor of keeping the law upheld.