For the first time since Reconstruction, the federal government uses the military to uphold African Americans' civil rights, as soldiers escort nine African American students to desegregate a school in Little Rock,

Arkansas. Daisy Bates, an NAACP leader, advised and assisted the students and eventually had a state holiday dedicated to her.

African American ballet dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey founds the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, now world-

renowned

Four African American college students hold a sit-in to integrate a Woolworth's lunch counter in

Greensboro, N.C., launching a wave of similar protests across the South.

The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) begins to organize Freedom Rides throughout the South to try to de-segregate interstate public bus travel.

1 2 3 4 Total Philadelphia 42 37 46 44 169 New York 26 42 38 41 147 Date March 2, 1962 Arena Hershey Sports Arena City

Hershey, Pennsylvania Attendance 4,124

May 19, 1925 – Febuary 21, 1965Died at 39

Freedom Summer

Martin Luther King, Jr. is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

In the wake of the Selma-Montgomery March, the Voting Rights Act is passed,

outlawing the practices used in the South to disenfranchise African American voters

This is everything that our ancestors fought for use to have today that we take for granted.This is our history and we cant

forget about it.