Civil Rights- Chap 31

By jRITT

  • Brown vs. USA

    Brown vs. USA
    Segregation in school is unconstitutional

  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks
    Refuses to give up her seat, sparking protests like bus protests

  • Crisis in Little Rock

    Crisis in Little Rock
    School became desegregated, and African Americans needed military escort to enter the school

  • Sit-In

    Sit-In
    Four black college students in Greensboro, North Carolina sat down at the whites-only lunch table

  • Filling the Jails in Birmingham

    Filling the Jails in Birmingham
    The city of Birmingham, Alabama defied the new desegregation laws

  • Marches on Washington

    Marches on Washington
    250,000 people marched on Washington for racial equality

  • Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing

    Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing
    Four African-American girls were killed in the bombing of the desegregated Sixteenth Street Baptist Church by pro segregation white people.

  • Civil rights act of 1964

    Civil rights act of 1964
    Segregation deemed illegal along with discrimination

  • Voting Rights Act

    Voting Rights Act
    African-Americans given right to vote

  • Dr. King's Assassination

    Dr. King's Assassination
    On April 4th, 1968 Dr. King was shot to death