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Civil Rights

By torijaccaud

  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks
    Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white bus rider, defying a southern custom that requires blacks to give up their seat to whites towards the front of the bus.

  • protests

    protests
    Four freshman at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College began a wave a student sit-ins designed to end segregation at southern lunch counters.

  • freedom rides

    freedom rides
    CORE & SNCC organized the freedom rides to test southern compliance with this ruling.

  • Birmingham

    Birmingham
    Martin Luther King joined the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth in a civil rights campaign in Birmingham, Alabama.

  • Malcom X

    Malcom X
    Malcom X made a pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, & the Holy City of Islam. Seeing Muslims of all races praying together changed his views separatism but he had only nine months to spread his new beliefs.