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Rosa Parks and Montgomery Bus Boycott
In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the front of the bus and was threatened to be removed. After her arrest there was a sprout of civil rights activists that started the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which was led by Martin Luther King Jr. -
Brown vs Board Of Education
In 1957, the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional which overturned the separate but equal ruling from a similar case back in 1896, Plessy vs Ferguson. -
Freedom Riders
A group of seven African American boys and six whites boarded two buses. They used restrooms and other utilities that were for whites only and was confronted with violence. When the bus stopped to change a tire the bus was firebombed and the boys were beaten. -
March on Washington
The March on Washington was to build support for the civil rights movement, use the capital to increase attention, gather leaders that will make an impact and gather more followers such as Malcolm X -
JFK was forced to act against segregation
They forced him to protect protesters such as the freedom riders, help college students and to implement the Civil Rights Act- Gave all americans the right to any facility and officially banned discrimination in employment and acted on the Voting Rights Act as that made it to where blacks could vote