The "Freedom Summer" voter registration campaign begins in Mississippi on June 1.

Martin Luther King delivers his "I Have a Dream" Speech at the March on Washington, August 28.

The Little Rock School Desegregation Crisis begins on September 4. President Eisenhower calls in the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army to protect the nine children attempting to integrate the school. Elements of the Division remain there until May 1958.