1865 : End of slavery 1896 : "separate but equal" mentality 1909 : NAACP for racial equality 1955 : Rosa Parks' bus boycott 1957 : African-American students at Little Rock Nine 1963 : Martin Luther King's speech "I have a dream" 1965 : Blacks have the right to vote 1963 : Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy's death 2008 : Barack Obama's election