60'S

Brown Vs. Board of Education

May 17, 1954

End segregation in public schools.

Rosa Parks

Dec 1, 1955

Refused to move from seat for a white man,

SCLC

Jan 10, 1957

Organized marches and boycotts.

Little Rock Nine

Sep 4, 1957

Black students were allowed to go to Little Rock Central High School.

March on Washington

Aug 28, 1963

"I have a dream Speech"

Civil Rights Act

Jul 2, 1964

Act ending segregation in public

Selma March

Feb 18, 1965

"Bloody March"