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As the Civil War ended, the Southern States had to reconstruct the government and society. The political and social right of the millions of newly freed Americans would become an important part of the post-war period.

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Booker T. Washington's "Atlanta Compromise" Speech (1895)

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Booker T. Washington's "Atlanta Compromise" Speech (1895)

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The "Atlanta Compromise" speech, delivered in 1895 by African American educator and activist Booker T. Washington, argued that African Americans must concentrate on educating themselves, learning useful trades, and investing in their own businesses. Hard work, economic progress, and merit, he believed, would prove to whites the value of blacks to the American economy.

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A Louisiana state law that permitted "equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races" was upheld by the Supreme Court's decision in this case. Three amendments to the Constitution and numerous laws enacted by Congress during the Reconstruction era guaranteed political rights for Black Americans.

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In 1919, there was a spike in racial violence known as the "Red Summer" that had an impact on at least 26 American cities. The return of millions of military personnel to their homes and domestic lives after the war end worsening racial tensions throughout the United States.

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His nonviolent resistance contributed to the removal of British rule in India and had an impact on other civil injustices around the world. Gandhi, also known as Mahatma, contributed to India's independence by adhering to the nonviolent non-cooperation stance.

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A white mob attacked people, homes, and businesses in the predominately Black Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, over the course of 18 hours on May 31 and June 1, 1921, during the Tulsa Race Massacre.

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The Harlem Renaissance was a time in American history when the African American community experienced a creative explosion in the fields of art, music, and literature. The Harlem Renaissance, centered in New York City's Harlem, lasted from roughly the end of World War I in 1918 until the mid-1930s.

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While being known as the "President of Africa" Marcus Garvey creates the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). There he attempts to ally with the KKK to separate blacks from whites. He is eventually sentenced to prison due to mail fraud and was then deported back to Jamacia.

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During this case, the Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional. It signaled the end of legalized racial segregation in the schools of the United States, overruling the "separate but equal" principle set forth in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case.

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African American teen Claudette Colvin was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. This was nine months before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. Colvin ignited Park's to spark the civil rights movement.

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In the summer of 1955, Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black teen from Chicago, visited family in a small town in Mississippi. Till was murdered because he whistled at a white woman. A few days after the incident, his badly beaten body was discovered floating in the Tallahatchie River. Despite all of the evidence being against them, the criminals were found not guilty.

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The NAACP ordered Rosa Parks to give up her seat to a white person on a bus. This incident then sparked the Montgomery Bus boycott which took a big role in the civil rights movement,

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The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which black led my MLK refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. This is known as the first large-scale U.S. demonstration against segregation

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Nine teenagers became known as the "Little Rock Nine," and they were the first African Americans to enroll in Little Rock's Central High School. Following the Supreme Court decision three years prior, the Little Rock school board committed to voluntarily desegregating its schools.

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Discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin is illegal under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This civil rights act's provisions prohibited discrimination in hiring, promoting, and firing on the basis of sex in addition to race.

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Martin Luther King Jr. "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)

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Martin Luther King Jr. "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)

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Martin Luther King Jr., an American civil rights activist, made his famous speech "I Have a Dream" in 1963, as part of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. King demanded the abolition of racism in the US and the protection of civil and economic rights in his speech.

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In the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan, Malcolm X died tragically when gunned down by three members of the Nation of Islam.

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After the police murdered Jimmie Lee Jackson, MLK, and the NAACP led a march from Selma to Montgomery hoping to gain voting rights. This first day was known as "bloody Sunday" where people suffered injuries and some were killed.

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Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination (1968) 

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Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination (1968) 

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In the Lorraine Motel, located in Memphis, Tennessee MLK was unfortunately shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room.

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After a police raid at the Stonewall Inn, the Stonewall Riots broke out. The LGBTQ community was inspired to riot for six days by the tension brought on by ongoing harassment.