Events

Events


  1. 24th Amendment to the Constitution

  2. The Birmingham Children’s Crusade of 1963

  3. Black Codes

  4. Bloody Sunday (March 7, 1965)

  5. Bolling v. Sharpe (1954)

  6. Briggs v. Elliott (1951)

  7. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)

  8. Brownsville, Texas Affair (August 1906)

  9. Chicago Race Riot of 1919 (Red Summer of 1919)

  10. Creole Mutiny

  11. Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County (1952)

  12. Denmark Vesey Uprising (1822)

  13. Elaine Massacre of 1919 (Elaine, Arkansas)

  14. Emmett Till Murder

  15. Gabriel’s Rebellion 1800 (Gabriel Prosser)

  16. Gebhart v. Belton (1952)

  17. Greensboro Sit-Ins (Greensboro, North Carolina)

  18. Griffin v. County Board of Prince Edward County, Virginia

  19. Juneteenth

  20. The Little Rock Nine

  21. Loving v. Virginia (Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter)

  22. Louisiana Slave Revolt (1811)

  23. New York Slave Rebellion of 1712

  24. March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (August 28, 1963)

  25. Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike (1968)

  26. Million Man March (October 16, 1995)

  27. Montgomery Bus Boycott

  28. Nat Turner Rebellion (1822)

  29. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

  30. Port Chicago Disaster and Mutiny

  31. Scottsboro Boys

  32. Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing (September 15, 1963)

  33. Stono, South Carolina Rebellion of 1739 (also known as the Cato’s Conspiracy or Cato’s Rebellion)

  34. Tice Davids (his association with the term “underground railroad”)

  35. Tulsa Race Massacre (also known as the Tulsa Race Riot)

  36. Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment (also known as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study)

  37. Voting Rights Act of 1965