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In California, Pamela Lewis discovered that black children are still being denied access to IQ tests due to a statewide policy established in 1979. She wanted to have her 6-year-old son Nicholas take a standardized IQ test to determine his eligibility for special education speech therapy. |
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During his keynote speech at the NAACP's 95th annual convention, Chairman Julian Bond calls on members of the nation's largest and oldest civil rights organization to boost voter turnout to help oust President Bush. |
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Bill Cosby draws a standing ovation at the Rainbow-PUSH Coalition conference in Chicago when he infers that children who cannot read and degrade each other with racial slurs betrays the sacrifices made during the Civil Rights Movement. |
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Zephyrhills, Florida changes MLK street name back to Sixth Avenue. |
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A jury in Birmingham, Alabama convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of four girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing |
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James Earl Ray, an escaped convict, shoots and kills Martin Luther King. |
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The 12th Street Riot begins on 12th Street in Detroit Michigan. 43 people are killed, 342 are injured and nearly 1,400 buildings are burned in the worst race riot in Americna history. |
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Edward Brooke becomes the first African-American elected to the United States Senate. He is a former Massachusetts Attorney General |
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The U.S. Supreme Court issued their Brown v. Board of Education ruling, outlawing racial segregation in public schools. |
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Mrs. Viola Liuzzo, a white civil rights worker from Detroit, is murdered by four KKK members while driving from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. |
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Malcolm-X is assassinated during a speech in New York City. |
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Martin Luther King Jr. and 700 other demonstrators are arrested in Selma, AL. |
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Martin Luther King Jr. begins a drive to register African-American voters . |
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Mississippi civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead after their June 21st disappearance. |
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U.S. President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits segregation in public places. |
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U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act into law. |
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Andrew Goodman, James Cheney and Mickey Schwerner are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi by members of the Ku Klux Klan. |
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Malcolm X is murdered as he addressed his followers at Harlem's Audubon Ballroom. |
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A white man was seen getting out of a white and turquoise Chevrolet car and placing a box under the steps of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Soon afterwards, at 10.22 a.m., the bomb exploded killing Denise McNair (11), Addie Mae Collins (14), Carole Robertson (14) and Cynthia Wesley (14). The f ... |
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Men, women, and children assembled on the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial, To listen to Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech. |
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Martin Luther King is released from prison. |
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123 federal marshals, 316 U.S. border patrolmen, and 97 federal prison guards escorted James Meredith onto the college campus, after eruption of killings and violence by the KKK after his admittance into the University of Mississippi. |
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The Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus. |
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In Anniston, Alabama, two Freedom Rides buses carrying students rolled from Washington DC. When they arrived in Alabama, the Klan was waiting for them. attempting and when they arrived in Alabama, the Klan was waiting for them. In Anniston, Alabama, the two buses were stopped and burned, but that di ... |
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Four African-American students sit at a whites-only lunch counter in an F.W. Woolworth store in Greensboro, North Carolina and are refused service. |
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A Black woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a White man in Montgomery, Alabama. |
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NAACP Founded. A Key Figure in the new movement is WEB DuBois, the leader of the Niagara Movement. |
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The first African-American to join the US senate. It was Hiram R. Revels from Mississippi. |
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The 15th Amendment to the constitution was ratified to guarantee voting rights to all American male citizens |
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Armed white people fire on black marchers killing 12 people. |
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