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The Montogomery Bus Boycott
Sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks on 1 December 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. -
The Little Rock 9
A group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated. One year after Central High was integrated, Governor Faubus closed Little Rock’s high schools for the entire year, -
Civil Right Act of 1957
primarily a voting rights bill, was the first civil rights legislation passed by Congress in the United States since the 1866 and 1875 Acts.
increase the number of registered black voters and stated its support for such a move. -
The Sit in Movemnet
Four African American college students walked up to a whites-only lunch counter at the local store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and asked for coffee. When service was refused, the students sat patiently. Before the end of the school year, over 1500 black demonstrators were arrested. But their sacrifice brought results. Slowly, but surely, restaurants throughout the South began to abandon their policies of segregation. -
The Freedom Rider's
A series of bus trips through the American South to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals.
They went off to Washington, D.C., and attempted to integrate facilities at bus terminals along the way into the Deep South. African-American Freedom Riders tried to use “whites-only” restrooms and lunch counters,
Months later Freedom riders did the same as well only in 1961 that congress prohibiting segregation in bus and train stations nationwide. -
James Meredith and the Desegregation of the University of Mississippi
James Meredith attempted to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Chaos briefly broke out on the Ole Miss campus, with riots ending in two dead, hundreds wounded and many others arrested, after the Kennedy administration called out some 31,000 National Guardsmen and other federal forces to enforce order.
violated the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, -
Protests in Birmingham
when local officials agreed to remove "White Only" and "Black Only" signs from restrooms and drinking fountains in downtown Birmingham; desegregate lunch counters; deploy a "Negro job improvement plan";
This was called project c this was considered one of the major turning points in the Civil Rights Movement and the "beginning of the end" of a centuries-long struggle for freedom. -
The March on Washington
One of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history and demanded civil and economic rights for African Americans.
It also when Dr Martian Luther King gave his famous speech were he had dream that white and black will come together as a whole be together as human beins -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
It was signed by President Johnson this was geting closer freedom of segeration -
The Selma March
Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama.
He wanted to change the voting act for African Americans -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
It was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment.
This gave African American right to vote as well to help this country -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr
After Martin Luther King dies he died but the dream didnt die as he left a legacy. 4 days after his death they had a Holiday set up for him to pay tribute for what he has done.
King’s death sparked rioting in more than 100 cities around the country, including burning and looting. Amid a wave of national mourning.
The man that killed him was James Earl Ray he pled guilty and was sent to jail to die
