America,

We have come a long way as a nation. Yes, we have a long way to go, but November 4, 2008 marked monumental progress. Here is just a small list of the achievements we have made over the years.

Yes we can, and yes we did.

Please feel free to add any more important moments below.

1954

Brown vs. Board of Education: U.S. Supreme Court bans segregation in public schools.

1955

Bus boycott launched in Montgomery, Ala., after an African-American woman, Rosa Parks, is arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white person.

1956

After more than a year of boycotting the buses and a legal fight, the Montgomery buses desegregate.

1957

1,000 paratroopers are called by President Eisenhower to restore order and escort nine black students that enrolled at a previously all-white Central High in Little Rock, Ark.

1960

The sit-in protest movement begins in February at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C. and spreads across the nation.

1961

Freedom rides begin from Washington, D.C. Groups of black and white people ride buses through the South to challenge segregation.

Barack Obama is born August 4.

1962

James Meredith becomes the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Violence and riots surrounding the incident cause President Kennedy to send 5,000 federal troops.

1964

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is signed by President Johnson.

1965

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is signed by President Johnson. The act, which King sought, authorized federal examiners to register qualified voters and suspended devices such as literacy tests that aimed to prevent African Americans from voting.

1988

Overriding President Reagan's veto, Congress passes the Civil Rights Restoration Act, which expands the reach of non-discrimination laws within private institutions receiving federal funds.

1989

Douglas Wilder of Virginia becomes the nation's first African American elected to state governor.

1991

After two years of debates, vetoes and threatened vetoes, President Bush signs the Civil Rights Act of 1991, strengthening existing civil rights laws and providing for damages in cases of intentional employment discrimination.

2008

Barack Obama becomes the first African American President of the United States.