1896 - Plussy v. Ferguson
1920 - Women get to vote
1954 - Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas
1955 - Rosa Parks arrested
1956 - Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott
1957 - Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus
1957 - Southern Christian Leadership Conference - King
1960 - N.C. A&T - first sit-in
1960 - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
1961 - Freedom Rides
1963 - Police Chief Eugene "Bull" Conner, Birmingham, Ala.
1963 - March on Washington, D.C.; King's "I Have a Dream" speech
1963 - President Kennedy introduced Civil Rights legislation
1963 - Medgar Ever murdered
1963 - Kennedy assassinated
1964 - 24th amendment, poll tax banned
1964 - Civil Rights Act
1964 - Summer riots in northern ghettos
1964 - Neshoba County, Mississippi
1964 - Dr. King awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway
1965 - Voting Rights Act
1966 - Black ghetto riots
1968 - King assassinated in Memphis, Tenn.
1969 - End to all dual-educational systems
1971 - Court-ordered school busing
