Harry S. Truman 1945 - 54 Dwight D.

Eisenhower 1954 - 1961

1954 Brown V. Board (Desegregation of schools) 1955 Brown V. Board 2 (With all deliberate speed) 1955 Emmitt Till murdered 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott (Rise of MLK, Rosa Parks) 1957 SCLC established, MLK made leader 1957 Little Rock (Orval Faubus stops 9 black students from going to school) 1960 Greensboro sit-ins 1960 SNCC founded
John F. Kennedy 1961 - 1963

1961 Freedom Rides 1962 James Meredith, university of Mississippi 1963 Letter from Birmingham Jail 1963 Eugene Bull Connor uses fire hoses and police dogs on black protestors (Children) 1963 Murder of Medgar Evars 1963 March on Washington 1963 4 young black children killed by bomb blast in Birmingham, Alabama
Lyndon B. Johnson 1963 - 1969

1964 President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1964 (End of Jim Crow) 1965 Selma, Alabama (Protestors stopped at Pettus Bridge, MLK gives up second march much to the dismay of the SCLC and SNCC) 1965 Congress passes the 1965 Voting Rights Act 1965 Watts riots in Los Angeles 1966 Black Panthers founded by Huey Norton 1966 - Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court rules that prohibiting interracial marriage is unconstitutional. 1967 Detroit race riots 1968 MLK assassinated 1968 President Johnson signs Housing Rights Act, in an act of repent for MLK