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Montgomery Bus Boycott
The mongomery bus boycott was the arrest of the black woman (Rosa Parks )for refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white man. This happened in Montgomery, Alabama. The boycott had lasted 13 months and was made for the right to sit anywhere on the bus no matter what race you were. -
Fredom Riders Bus Burned
Freedom Riders' bus was burned just outside of Anniston, Alabama. A rfight against the Freedom Riders in Montgomery, Alabama. General Robert Kennedy nearly beaten to death.Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States -
John F. Kennedy assassinated
The John F. Kennedy assasination happened while he was visting Dallas, Texas. He was assinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, a pro-Castro malcontent. -
24th ammendment was passsed!
The Twenty-Fourth Amendment, which abolished any form of payment, usually called a poll tax, as a prerequisite for voting in federal elections. This was an important event during cival rights becuase it ended the mandatory poll taxes that prevented many African Americans. -
Civil Rights bill passed
The CIval rights bill was passed the federal government formed the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The commission banned all discrimination based on race, religion, gender, and national origin in an act that became known as Title VII.
