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Forced busing begins
Is the practice of assigning and transporting students to schools in such a manner as to redress prior racial segregation of schools, or to overcome the effects of residential segregation on local school demographics. -
Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus
Rosa Parks got arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a public bus. Which started the Montgomery bus boycott -
Rosa Parks
After her arrest, Parks became an icon of the Civil Rights Movement but suffered hardships as a result. She lost her job at the department store, and her husband quit his job after his boss forbade him to talk about his wife or the legal case. -
Governor Farbus of Arkansas brings in National Guard to prevent black students from going into a white school.
After the intervention of President Eisenhower, is considered to be one of the most important events in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. On their first day of school, troops from the Arkansas National Guard would not let them enter the school and they were followed by mobs making threats to lynch. -
Sit in at Woolworth's lunch counter
Four African American college students sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworth’s in Greensboro, North Carolina, and politely asked for service. Their request was refused. When asked to leave, they remained in their seats. Their passive resistance and peaceful sit-down demand helped ignite a youth-led movement to challenge racial inequality throughout the South. -
Freedom riders bus burned
The Freedom Riders set out for the Deep South to defy Jim Crow laws and call for change. They were met by hatred and violence they burned their bus and local police often refused to intervene. But the Riders' efforts transformed the civil rights movement. -
24th amendment passed
prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. The amendment was proposed by Congress. -
MLK writes Letter from a Birmingham jail
During his 11 day stay in jail he wrote this Letter. -
Peaceful demonstrators ruthlessly attacked in Birmingham, Alabama- MLK arrested.
Martin Luther King, Jr. is arrested in Birmingham, Alabama for participating in a demonstration to end segregated facilities. -
"I have a dream" speech given by Martin Luther King
MLK gave his big speech in Washington with 250,000 people in attendence. -
March on Washington
Over 250,000 people assembled in Washington to listen to Martin Luther King Jr.and march for black rights. -
John F. Kennedy assasinated
Kennedy was fatally shot while traveling with his wife Jacqueline, Texas governor John Connally, and the latter's wife, -
Lyndon B. Johnson becomes President
He became president right after John F Kennedy was assasinated. -
Civil Rights bill passed
Outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women, including racial segregation. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public -
Malcom x dies
Malcolm X prepared to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom, a disturbance broke out in the 400-person audience a man yelled, "Nigger! Get your hand outta my pocket!" As Malcolm X and his bodyguards moved to quiet the disturbance, A man rushed forward and shot him in the chest with a sawed-off shotgun. Two other men charged the stage and fired handguns, hitting Malcolm X 16 times. -
Voting rights act 1965
Outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S. -
Watts riots
A large-scale riot which lasted 5 days in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, -
Martin Luther King
After her arrest, Parks became an icon of the Civil Rights Movement but suffered hardships as a result. She lost her job at the department store, and her husband quit his job after his boss forbade him to talk about his wife or the legal case. -
Martin Luther King Jr. assasinated
While standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.
