"We want white tenants in our white community," directly opposite the Sojourner Truth homes, a new US federal housing project in Detroit, Michigan. White neighbors' attempt to prevent Black tenants from moving in.

This landmark order established the first President`s Committee on Civil Rights charged with examining law enforcement agencies and government systems.

He was the first African American to play baseball in the major leagues.

First African-American Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

In this milestone decision, the Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional.

The roots of the bus boycott began years before the arrest of Rosa Parks. But, on December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks rejected bus driver James F. Blake's order to vacate a row of four seats in the colored section to seat a white passenger. By June 1956, the federal district court ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional, and affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Executive Order 10730 signed by President Dwight Eisenhower, sent Federal troops to maintain order and peace while the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, AR, took place.

August 29, 1957, the Senate gave final congressional approval to a Civil Rights Act after South Carolina Sen.

Monday, February 1, 1960, at 4:30 p.

First African American and American Woman to Win 3 Gold Medals in a singly Olympics, September 11, 1960.

Thirteen members of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) set off on a bus ride from Washington D.

The Birmingham Campaign was launched in 1963.

While residing in jail, the Reverend Dr.

Prohibits sex-based pay differentials on jobs.

August 28, 1963 : Martin Luther King Jr Delivers I Have a Dream in Washington, DC Thanks to the Power of TV and radio, Martin Luther King Jr`s speech at the end of the March on Washington was broadcast around the world.

This act, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on July 2, 1964, prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal.

On Februry 21, 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated while speaking at a rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City.

The Historic Selma to Montgomery marchers started on March 7, 1965.

This act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson.

Affirmative action requirements of government contractors and subcontractors.

First Black appointed to the United States Supreme Court, August 30, 1967.

Banned anti-miscegenation laws (race-based restrictions on marriage).

April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr was shot outside of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

Graduating as valedictorian from his high school, Arthur Ashe turned pro at the age of 26, and went on to win the US Open, Wimbledon, and became the first African American tennis player to be ranked number one.

Shirley Chisholm became the first African-American woman to serve in the US Congress.

On August 30, 1983, the space shuttle Challenger blasted off in the dark from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carrying the first African-American astronaut to go into space.

In Atlantic City, New Jersey, at the age of 20, Vanessa Williams of New York had won American`s foremost beauty pageant.

Adds provisions to Title VII protections, including right to jury trial.

On September 12, 1992, Mae Jemison became the first African-American woman to go into space.

First African American US Secretary of State.