| A | B |
| 1954 | Brown vs. the Board of Education ends segregation |
| 1955 | Rosa Parks is arrested on Dec 1st after refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man |
| 1962 | James Meredith enrolls in the university of Mississippi |
| 1963 | MLK, Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech |
| 1965 | Malcolm X is assassinated on Feb 21st |
| 1966 | Black Panther Party is founded in Oakland, CA |
| 1968 | Martin Luther King Jr. In assassinated on april 4th |
| Little Rock Arkansas | first time a state's armed forces were used to oppose the authority of the federal gov. |