Civil Right Movement

  • civil rights in armed services

    President Harry Truman ended segregation in the armed services
  • civil rights in school

    Brown Vs. the Board of education
    supreme court effectively ended racial segregation in public schools. (many private cathlic and chart schools stayed segergated
  • Rosa Park

    Rosa Park refuses to give her seat to a white man on a bus in Alabama started the bus boycott.
  • Discrimination and Segregation

    Sixty Black pastors and civil rights leaders from several southern states including Martin Luther King Jr. meet in Atlanta, Georgia to coordinate nonviolent protests against racial discrimination and segregation