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

On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, AL and sparked the American Civil Rights movement of the 20th century.

W.E.B. Dubois was integral to the advancement of racial equality.

In 1619, the Dutch introduced the first captured Africans to America, planting the seeds of a slavery system that evolved into a nightmare of abuse and cruelty that would ultimately divide the nation.