Civil Rights

  • Brown v Board of education

    Supreme Court ruling that stated that state-sanctioned segregation of schools was unconstitutional
  • The Arrest of Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks was arrested for disobeying seating laws that segregated people by color and determined where whites and colored people can sit
  • Little Rock Nine

    Nine colored students attended a previously all-white school
  • Greensboro sit-ins

    Protesters committed to a sit-in protest at a Woolworth's only white lunch counter
  • I have a dream speech

    Martin Luther King Jr. performs the famous I have a dream speech
  • Civil rights Bill

    Lyndon B Johnson signed the civil rights bill