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NAACP was founded
In 1909, Du Bois, Terrell, and others gathered in New York City, NY, where they founded the NAACP on February 12, 1909, to fight racism and violence against all people of color in the United States. -
Brown v. Board of Education
In the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case (1954), the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, overturning the "separate but equal" doctrine established in Plessy v. Ferguson. -
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. -
Sit-in at Woolworth’s lunch counter
On February 1, 1960, the four students sat down at the lunch counter at the Woolworth's in downtown Greensboro, where the official policy was to refuse service to anyone but whites. Denied service, the four young men refused to give up their seats -
CORE “freedom ride”
During the spring of 1961, student activists from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) launched the Freedom Rides to challenge segregation on interstate buses and bus terminals. -
Dr. King was thrown into Birmingham Jail
On April 10, 1963, a state judge granted city officials an injunction banning all anti-segregation protest activity in the city of Birmingham. Dr. King and the Rev. Abernathy chose to lead a march in defiance of the injunction and were arrested on April 12, 1963. -
March on Washington
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, held on August 28, 1963, was a massive demonstration in Washington, D.C., where over 250,000 people gathered to advocate for civil and economic rights for African Americans, culminating in Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic "I Have a Dream" speech.