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Rosa Parks get arrested
She was arrested for not giving her seat up to a white person on the bus. She became an international icon of resistence to racial segregation. She also worked with Martin L. King. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Started the Day Parks was arrested and lasted until Dec. 20, 1955 when a federal ruling took effect that declared the alabama and montgomery laws requiring segregated buses to be unconstitutional. -
Farbus brings in gaurds to prevent blacks from going to a white school
Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, and then attended after the intervention of President Eisenhower, is considered to be one of the most important events in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. -
Sit in at Woolworth's Lunch Counter
four young black men sat down at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, NC, and asked to be served. The management refused, and protests ensued. Six months of negotiations and sit-ins later, the Woolworth's management changed its policy and chose Geneva Tisdale and two of her co-workers to be the first African-Americans to eat at the lunch counter at which they worked. -
Freedoms Riders bus Burned
civil rights activists that rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the United States Supreme Court decision -
"The Other America" by Michael Harrington
(couldnt find a date) Was an influential study of poverty in the United States, published in 1962 and it was a driving force behind the "war on poverty." The Boston Globe editorialized that Medicaid, Medicare, food stamps and expanded social security benefits were traceable to Harrington’s ideas. Harrington became the pre-eminent spokesman for Democratic socialism in America. -
24th Amendment Passed
The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax. -
Letter from Birmingham jail MLK
King's letter is a response to a statement made by eight white Alabama clergymen on April 12, 1963, titled "A Call For Unity". The clergymen agreed that social injustices existed but argued that the battle against racial segregation should be fought solely in the courts, not in the streets. King responded that without nonviolent forceful direct actions such as his, true civil rights could never be achieved. -
"I have a Dream" speech was Given
A seventeen minute public speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., in which he called for racial equality and an end to discrimination. -
John F Kennedy Assassination
Kennedy was fatally shot while riding with his wife Jacqueline in a Presidential motorcade, Government investigations concluded that the President was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. -
Lyndon B Johnson becomes president
two hours and eight minutes after President Kennedy was assassinated in Dealey Plaza in Dallas.[31] He was sworn in by Federal Judge Sarah T. Hughes, a family friend, making him the first President sworn in by a woman. He is also the only President to have been sworn in on Texas soil. Johnson did not swear on a Bible, as there were none on Air Force One; a Roman Catholic missal was found in Kennedy's desk and was used for the swearing-in ceremony -
Civil Rights Bill Passed
Outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women, and ended racial segregation in the United States -
Malcom X Dies
He was giving a speech in the manhattan audubon ballroom, when a disturbance broke out and he was shot and hit 16 times just for trying to fix a problem. -
Voting Rights Act
Outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S. -
Watts Riots
By the time the riot subsided, 34 people had been killed, 1,032 injured, and 3,438 arrested. It would stand as the most severe riot in Los Angeles history until the Los Angeles riots of 1992 -
Martin Luther King Jr Assinated
was shot at on the second floor balcony of the motel they were staying in.