August, 1955
A fourteen year old colored boy is kidnapped in Mississippi while visiting his family. He is beaten, shot, and dumped in a river for whistling at a white woman.
December 1, 1955
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the "Colored Section" of a bus to a white passenger.
A fourteen year old colored boy is kidnapped in Mississippi while visiting his family. He is beaten, shot, and dumped in a river for whistling at a white woman.
December 1, 1955
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the "Colored Section" of a bus to a white passenger.
Rosa Parks on the bus
January-February 1957
Martin Luther King, Charles K. Steele, and Fred L. Shuttlesworth establish the Southern Christian Leadership conference.
May 4, 1961
Over the spring and summer, student volunteers begin taking bus trips to the south to test out new laws that prohibit segregation in interstate travel facilities.
October 1, 1962
James Meredith becomes the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
August 28, 1963
About 200,000 people join the March in Washington. Congregrating at the Lincoln Memorial, participants listen to Martin Lut
her King Jr give his amazing "I Have a Dream" speech.
Martin Luther King Jr giving his famous "I Have a Dream" speech
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