| Year |
Event |
| 1960 |
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC) founded to coordinate student-led efforts to end segregation. |
| 1960 |
Hundreds of university students stage a
sit-in at downtown stores in Nashville, Tennessee, to protest segregated lunch counters. |
| 1960 |
Civil Rights Act reaffirms voting rights for
all Americans. |
| 1961 |
Integrated groups of protesters join Freedom
Rides on buses across the South to protest segregation. |
| 1963 |
Hundreds of thousands of Americans take part in the March on
Washington to call for racial equality. |
| 1963 |
Martin Luther King Jr. leads 200,000 Americans to march on
Washington D.C. for civil rights. |
| 1963 |
President Kennedy is assassinated. |
