Civil right grassroots

By ashleypolitza

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    The Montgomery bus system was desegregated. This led to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

  • Founding of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

    In 1957 Martin Luther King, Jr., Bayard Rustin, Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth, and two others founded the civil rights organization SCLC in order to coordinate protests throughout the south.

  • Freedom Rides

    The SCLC expanded during the Freedom rides of 1961 where activists challenged Jim Crow's segregation in the south.

  • First victory

    In Birmingham Alabama, the SCLC did a four-month campaign which would be their first victory as a group.

  • Letter From A Birmingham Jail

    Martin Luther King's famous letter.

  • The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing

    4 girls were killed by the Ku Klux Klan due to the civil rights campaign in Birmingham.

  • Civil Rights Act

    President Kennedy created the Civil Rights Act to attempt to provide relief against the discrimination that was occurring.

  • Voting Rights Act

    President Johnson created the Voting Rights Act to ensure all citizens the right to vote and acknowledge that a person can not be denied this right based on race.

  • Poor Peoples Campaign

    This was created to try and solve the problems of poverty in the U.S. as well as create economic equality between blacks and whites.

  • Assassination

    Dr. Martin Luther King, one of the founders of SCLC was assassinated in Memphis Tennesee.

  • Head Of SCLC

    After Martin Luther King's death, the SCLC continued and is still going today, in 2009 Bernice King was selected to be the head of the SCLC