the 14th Amendment: passed in 1868, forbids any state from depriving citizens of their rights and privileges and defines citizenship
APRIL 4, 1968: Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., at age 39, was shot as he was standing on the balcony outside his hotel room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn.
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion, or national origin. The law also provides the federal government with the powers to enforce desegregation.
Bloody Sunday: on january 30th, 1972, Fourteen unarmed Catholic civil rights marchers protesting against interenment were shot and killed by the British army. this was a turning point in the civil rights movement.