African-American Civil Rights

By sholly

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    On December 1, 1955 many African Americans protested the arrest of famous civil rights activist Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Alabama was a known racist town and it was known that African Americans sit in the back of the bus. By Rosa Parks refusing to do this, she challenged a white man which was not acceptable. Many African Americans than decided to avoid using the bus for over a year. This showed the determination of many.

  • Birmingham Campaign

    The Birmingham campaign was an African American movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama. These goals included the desegregation of Birmingham's downtown stores, fair hiring practices in shops and city employment. MLK was a famous character in this movement and is known for his famous speech that he delivered that day.

  • March on Washington

    The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was held in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. This march brought over 200,000 people to the nation's capitol to protest racial discrimination and show support for civil rights legislation that was pending in Congress.

  • Civil Rights Act 64

    The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. This act also forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing. It also outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.

  • Bloody Sunday

    Bloody Sunday was a 600-person civil rights demonstration ends in violence when marchers are attacked and beaten by white state troopers and sheriff's deputies. During the march law enforcement officers beat unarmed marchers with billy clubs and sprayed them with tear gas.