May 1954

U.S. Supreme Court outlaws school segregation.

April 1968

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.

November 1960

Ruby bridges and 4 other black girls integrate two public schools in LA.

December 1955

Rosa Parks is arrested in Montgomery, Alabama.

June 1964

One thousand civil rights volunteers come to Mississippi.

October 1967

Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first black Supreme Court Justice.

August 1963

250,000 Americans join the March on Washington. MLK Jr. gives his "I Have a Dream" speech.

February 1960

Four black students sit in at a "whites only" lunch counter in North Carolina.

July 1964

President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

March 1965

Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama is completed.