Civil rights

Civil Rights Movements

By tyler.harrell
  • End of WWII

    End of WWII

    Japenese and Germany have both surrendered by this date.

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown rose against the segregation at schools.

  • Little Rock Nine Incident

    The Little Rock Nine were a group of African-American students who were enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.

  • Rosa Park Incident

    Rosa Park would not get out of a bus seat for a white man, when he asked her to.
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    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Blacks refused to ride buses, which cost the trasportation business much money.

  • Sputnik Launched

    The Russians launched "Sputnik"

  • U-2 Incident

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    Cuban Missile Crisis

    Russians were considered having "offensive" weapons.

  • March on Washington

    The blacks and people that do not support segregation marched on Washington and MLT Jr. gave his famous speech