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Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (Brown v. Board)
Mostly African Americans and Whites were involved. It was a Supreme Court case trying to appeal for no segregation in schools so blacks and whites could go to school together.Stopped segregation in schools. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks, African Americans, and whites were involved. Rosa Park sat at the front and refused to give her seat up to a white male and was fined 14 dollars. The boycott was to end segregation in buses and it was achieved -
Little Rock nine
African American students and a white school board. The superintendent at little rock placed 9 African American students in a school of 2,000 whites to show their "willingness" to obey the law. The governor placed soldiers to avoid disorder. The nine students did not show up the next day as school plans to delay the segregation ban. -
Sit-ins
It was a group of African American college students. They sat down at white sections to peacefully protest for service at white sections in public places such as fast foods. Eventually the south began to abandon their policies. -
Freedom Riders
African American volunteers and whites were involved. They went to each major white cities and sat in white waiting rooms to see if they were integrated. At first it was okay and then violence came to the freedom riders. There were police and soldiers at some places waiting to arrest them. It prevented interstate facilities from segregating facilities. -
Birmingham Demonstrations
Civil rights activist and whites were involved. Birmingham closed down park, playgrounds, swimming pools, and golf courses to prevent desegregation of those areas. Activists took to the streets for a peaceful protest and the police released dogs and used powerful fire fighter hoses to prevent them from protesting. The people were afraid and disapproving of police tactics and owners gave in and desegregated department stores. -
Washington March
Civil rights activists and whites were involved. They marched on Washington for jobs and freedom from segregation. It was the largest demonstration in the nations capital. The march pressured the president to initiate a strong federal civil rights bill in congress which ended segregation.