When President Harry S. Truman signed Executive Order 9981, it helped other parts of American society to accept desegregation.

In the 1950s, more than 40,000 citizens of Montgomery, Alabama, boycotted the city's segregated bus service for 381 days.

Freedom Summer 1964 was a massive voter registration campaign in Mississippi and the first interracial movement of its kind.

From the NAACP to the Black Lives Matter movement, we're counting down the biggest civil rights turning points in every decade.