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The Montgomery Bus Boycott
The buses in Montgomery were reserved for specific people, whote people were in the front adn black people were in the back. Rosa Parks later then challenged the court for segragation. this involved the "seperate but equal" doctorine. This caused for seperation but equal rights and facilites were provided. -
The Little Rock 9
The school board in Little Rock, Arkansas, let nine african americans intoa white school to be enrolled. The school, Central High, had 2,000 white people. The governor, Orval Faubus was known as a moderate on racial things. He wanted to get reelected after to fix the racial problems. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
This act wqas made to protect the rights of African Americans to vote. This was the first civil rights act passed since Reconstruction. Many southern senators tried to not pass it, but the Senate majority leader, made a compromise. -
The Sit-In Movement
It was a form of protest for union workers in the 1930's. It was intended for managers of restaurants to integrate. If Africans were denied service, they would continue sitting until they were being served. This led to the integration of restaurants, theaters, and other public places in Northern cities. -
The Freedom Riders
The Freedom Riders were a group of African Americans and white volunteers who were college students who travelled into the South becasue they wanted to draw attention to the integration of bus terminals, they were later gven their name. -
James Meredith and the Desgegration of Univerity of Mississippi
James Meredith was applied to the University of Mississippi, he was denied by the govenor while he was trying to block him.Meredith had a court order that was directed towards the Univeristy to allow him to register. While the govenor kept getting angry, the president at that time, President Kennedy had Meredith escorted inside the building of the University. -
Protests in Birmingham
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil right leader, who wanted change. HE wasupset when he had seen the president get involved without setting now civil right laws. HE led a protest to stop what was happening, but that led to violence in Birmingham, Alabama. -
The March on Washington
More than 200,000 people of different races went to the nation's capital. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a memorable speech about equality and freedom. People joined together, sang songs, and were chanting altogether. His speech built a foundation for civil rights, while other people on the Congress tried everything in their power to stop it. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
This act gave the federal government power to prevent racial discromination in most areas. It gave people rights to be accomadated in public places, this gave lawyers more lawuits since schools were forced school desegragation and workplace to end discrimination. This act also led the Equal Employment Oppurtunity Comission, which meant people can discriminate by race, religion, gender, and national origin. -
The Selma March
500 protesters marched toward US Highway 80, the route to Montgomery. When people tried breaking them up, they knelt down and began to pray. Brutal attacks began when 200 state troopers and citizens, 70 African Americans were hospitalized and more were injured. When people saw this video of violent police beating peaceful people, when President JOhnson saw this, he began a new voting rights law -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This act authorized the U.S attorney general to send federal examiners to register qualified voters, bypassing local officalw who often refused to register African Americans. This law also suspended discriminatory devices, this included literac tests. The result after the passing of this act was dramtic, 250,000 African AMericans were now allowed to vote. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis by a sniper. After his death, Congress passed the Civil RIghts Act of 1968, this put an end in discrimination by giving the Justice Department authority to bring suits against such discrimination. After his death, things weren't the same, it lacked leadership and and vision.
