The first-ever 911 call was made in the US.
Activists started a 54 mile (87 km) march from Selma to Montgomery.
A Ku Klux Klan bomb kills 4 young African-American girls.
Alabama Governor George Wallace stood in front of the schoolhouse door, refusing entry to two African American students.
Martin Luther King Jr. writes 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail'.
Martin Luther King started his first of many non-violent demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, US.
Rosa Parks was arrested.
Florida, one of the confederate states, was readmitted to the Union.
The Confederate States of America are established.
Alabama became the 22nd state to join the United States of America.
