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Civil right movement
The civil rights movement was a struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for blacks to gain equal rights under the law in the United States. The Civil War had officially abolished slavery, but it didn’t end discrimination against blacks—they continued to endure the devastating effects of racism, especially in the South. -
Montgomery bus boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott was a civil right protest during which African American refused to ride city bus in Montgomery Alabama. The protest was about seating segagrated, the bus boycott leave the buses for 385 days that brought an end to the buses segagration.
The Montgomery bus boycott happened because of African American been charged for not yielding her seat to a hier man. -
Integration of Little Rock nine
Little Rock was a group of nine African American student who enrolled central high school Arkansas formerly all white. Their first day of school was a big challenge that even caused the the President Eisenhower to call thr army national guard to escort the nine student and make sure they got in. -
First lunch counter sit in
On February 1, four African American college student sat down at a lunch counter in North Carolina Greensboro, they asked for service and their request was refused. When asked to leave they stay seat and their resistance and peacefull sit down led to movement challenge about racial thought the south. In Greensboro more than hundred civil right organnisation students, churches joined the protest that last six month and led to lunch desegregation, -
Freedom riders
The freedom riders was were a group of white and black civil right activist who participed in the protest of segagrating buses, restroom, lunch counters... in buses trip through Alabama and the southern states. Their protest had international attention because of confronting police officers and horrific violation from white protestor. -
March in Washington
The march in Washington in 1963, also known as the march for jobs and freedom, the march gathered 250,000people in fron of Abraham Lincoln memorial, the march targeted attention of inequality faced by African American, they gathered over memorial to refresh their memory that everybody should be equal emancipation proclamation.
That’s also the day king said “ i have a dream ”. -
Voting Right Act
The Voting Right Act was signes by President Lyndon Johnson with objective of eliminating racial discrimination in voting the act according to the 15th Amendment’s constitutional guarantee that the government won’t deny a citizen the right to vote based on “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
