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African American Civil Rights Movement
Social movements in the United States whose goals were to end racial segregation and discrimination against black Americans and to secure legal recognition and federal protection of the citizenship rights enumerated in the Constitution and federal law. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa park refuses to give up her seat on the bus for a white person. Back in the day that was disrespectful and would be dealt with in punishment. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
A voting rights bill, was the first civil rights legislation passed by Congress in the United States since the 1866 and 1875 Acts.The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was also Congress's show of support for the Supreme Court's Brown decisions. -
Children's Crusade
A march by hundreds of school students in Birmingham, Alabama, May 2–5, 1963, during the American Civil Rights Movement's Birmingham campaign. Initiated and organized by Rev. James Bevel, the purpose of the march was to walk downtown to talk to the mayor about segregation in their city. -
Hamilton v. Alabama
Supreme Court granted agreed to consider the case and, without hearing any oral arguments, found in Hamilton's favor, reversing the judgment of the Alabama Supreme Court. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
An american clergyman and civil rights leader who was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on Thursday, April 4, 1968, at the age of 39. King was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. that evening.
