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American Civil Rights

By JBaena

  • Rosa Parks was born

    Rosa Parks was born
    Rosa Parks was an African-American civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress called "the first lady of civil rights", and "the mother of the freedom movement"

  • Martin Luther King was born.

    Martin Luther King was born.
    Martin Luther King, He Was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus

    Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus
    Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus, starting the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This occurs nine months after 15-year-old high school student Claudette Colvin became the first to refuse to give up her seat. Colvin's was the legal case which eventually ended the practice in Montgomery.

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott
    Montgomery Bus Boycott 1955-56. Emptied City Buses for 381 Days

  • March on Washington

    March on Washington
    King, representing the SCLC, was among the leaders of the so-called "Big Six" civil rights organizations who were instrumental in the organization of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

  • The civil rights act.

    The civil rights act.
    Civil Rights Act of 1964 signed, banning discrimination based on "race, color, religion, sex or national origin" in employment practices and public accommodations .

  • MLK was awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize

    MLK was awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize
    King received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence. In the next few years leading up to his death, he expanded his focus to include poverty and the Vietnam War

  • MLK was assassinated.

    MLK was assassinated.
    King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and Congressional Gold Medal in 2004; Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a U.S. federal holiday in 1986. Hundreds of streets in the U.S. and beyond have been renamed in his honor.