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President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, making segregation in public facilities and discrimination in employment illegal.

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9. April 6, 1931: The Scottsboro Boys/Young Men

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9. April 6, 1931: The Scottsboro Boys/Young Men

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Nine Black boys tried for raping two White women. The defendants were hastily and wrongly convicted, but by 1950 all were free by parole, appeal, or escape.

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8. August 8, 1925: Ku Klux Klan March on Washington

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8. August 8, 1925: Ku Klux Klan March on Washington

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Founded in 1915 and inspired by the Reconstruction-era organization of the same name, the second Ku Klux Klan shared with its nineteenth-century namesake a deep racism, a fascination with mystical regalia, and a willingness to use violence to silence its foes.

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Supreme Court upheld the concept of separate but equal public facilities; thereby, offering approval of Jim Crow laws nationwide.

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The United States Supreme Court ruled in Civil Rights Cases of 1883 that the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was unconstitutional.

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5. 1882: The Rise of American Domestic Terrorism - Lynching

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5. 1882: The Rise of American Domestic Terrorism - Lynching

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The popularity of minstrel shows aided the spread of Jim Crow as a racial slur.

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By 1838, the term "Jim Crow" was being used as a collective racial epithet for blacks,

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By the end of the 19th century, Jim Crow was being used to describe laws and customs that oppressed blacks.

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Africans were stripped of human rights and enslaved as chattel, an enslavement that lasted more than two centuries.