1. 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.nine African American students Daisy Bates

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

3. 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.sit-in

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

5. 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 4,124Philadelphia New YorkHershey Sports Arena Hershey, Pennsylvania

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

8. Freedom Summer

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

10. 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 votersVoting Rights Act

11. 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.