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Civil Rights Movement
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Rosa Parks gets Arrested
Segregation occured even on buses in America. African Americans had to give up their seats to whites and move to the back. One woman Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to white man and was arrested. This event helped lead to the Montgomery bus Boycott. The NAACP organized the event and Martin Luther King Jr. was chosen to lead it. This event helped start up the Civil Rights movement. -
Staging Sit-ins
In 1960, African Americans stage the first sit in at Wod worth's in North Carolina. The African Americans would go sit in sections that were for whites only. Of course, the whites would be cruel and commit acts of cruelty on them, but the African Americans refused to move. These students modeled this from the first sit in that happened at a Chicago lunch counter in 1942. After this, sit-ins spread to 48 citis in 1 states. This shows the rapid progress of civil rights spreading across the country -
Birmingham Civil Rights March
Martin Lurther King starts marches in Birmingham. Bull Conner is in charge to break up the marches and make arrests. On May 3rd, there is another march which becomes broadcasted on T.V.'s, even at home. The police are equiped with clubs, dogs , fire hoses, and riot gear. The police use these on the marchers and viewers witness the horrors that were occuring. -
Violence Breaks Out
Civil Rights groups began to drift apart because of the the violence they continue to face from the whites. (Death of the 4 girls in church bombing and death of Jimmie Lee Jackson.)
Groups begin to think that they need to use violent tactics back. Riots begin to break out in many cities and many arrests, injuries, and deathes occur. This is also the time when other leaders like, Malcom X, Stokely Carmichael, and the Black Panthers emerge and speak their violent ideas to others -
The Death of Martin Luther King
On April 4th of 1968, Martin Luther King was shot and killed. This became a turning point in Civil Rights because he was a main leader. Urban riots broke out because of his death which became the worst in U.S. history with over 125 cities. Without a leader, the Civil Rights Movement slowly began to die down and end.
