Civil Rights

William Lewis Moore, a white postal worker from Baltimore, Maryland, was shot and killed in Alabama while he was on a one-person march for racial

Kate Brown, an African American Senate employee in charge of the ladies’ retiring room, boarded a train from Washington, D.C. to Alexandria, Virginia and took

The Bristol Omnibus Company Boycott began.  Inspired by the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a group of West Indians in Bristol, England organized a boycott of the

Wilhelmina Jakes and Carrie Patterson sat down in the whites-only section of a segregated bus in Tallahassee, Florida.  When they refused to move, the Tallahassee

Congressman Arthur Wergs Mitchell was told to move to the section of the train designated for African passengers, in accordance with the Arkansas Separate Coach

Lieutenant Jackie Robinson, while stationed at Camp Hood in Texas, was riding a bus and was instructed to move to a seat further back in

Elizabeth Jennings Graham, a black school teacher, tried to board a segregated horse drawn streetcar, the conductor objected and expelled her from the rail car.

Black Abolitionist Frederick Douglass and his friend, white politician James N. Buffum, boarded an Eastern Railroad Company train in a first-class car going from Lynn

President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1960, which prohibited intimidation of black voters and gave judges power to appoint referees to oversee

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that covenants, prohibiting the sale of real estates to blacks and other minorities were legally unenforceable.