📅 9 April 1947
An interracial group began the Journey of Reconciliation through the Upper South to test compliance with the Morgan decision. Riders challenged segregated seating and faced arrests and hostility....
📅 10 January 1957
Black ministers and activists met in Atlanta on 10–11 January to coordinate nonviolent campaigns following Montgomery. Further meetings consolidated the organization, later named the Southern...
📅 17 May 1957
Demonstrators gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to demand progress on civil rights. Martin Luther King Jr.’s address emphasized voting rights as a means to change public institutions. Organizers...
📅 28 August 1963
A mass demonstration in Washington demanded civil rights protections, employment and economic justice. Movement and labour organizations brought their constituencies together for the March on...
📅 3 February 1964
Students and families withheld attendance in a citywide protest against school segregation and unequal educational conditions. Black and Puerto Rican organizing brought racial inequality in a northern...
