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Montgomery 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. -
Southern Christion Leadership Conference
Affiear Ameicog were prepared for the struggle for equan rights -
Greensboro sit-in
On Feb 1 1960 4 college students went to a restaurant and the waitress refused to take their order. -
freedom riders
The first Freedom Ride took place on May 4, 1961 when seven blacks and six whites left Washington, D.C., on two public buses bound for the Deep South. They intended to test the Supreme Court's ruling in Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which declared segregation in interstate bus and rail stations unconstitutional. -
letter from birmingham
While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities "unwise and untimely."
