Civil Rights
1. 1954
-------- Emmett Till murdered Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) formed Montgomery bus boycott Martin Luther King Jr. and other black ministers form Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC); Eisenhower uses federal troops to enforce school desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas Supreme Court ruling
2. 1955-1956
-------- Emmett Till murdered Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) formed Montgomery bus boycott Martin Luther King Jr. and other black ministers form Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC); Eisenhower uses federal troops to enforce school desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas Supreme Court ruling
3. 1955
-------- Emmett Till murdered Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) formed Montgomery bus boycott Martin Luther King Jr. and other black ministers form Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC); Eisenhower uses federal troops to enforce school desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas Supreme Court ruling
4. 1957
-------- Emmett Till murdered Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) formed Montgomery bus boycott Martin Luther King Jr. and other black ministers form Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC); Eisenhower uses federal troops to enforce school desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas Supreme Court ruling
5. 1960
-------- Emmett Till murdered Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) formed Montgomery bus boycott Martin Luther King Jr. and other black ministers form Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC); Eisenhower uses federal troops to enforce school desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas Supreme Court ruling