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Truman signs executive order
It says, "It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin." to desegregate the Military. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
When Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to give her seat to a white male, and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses to be unconstitutional. Many important figures in the civil rights movement took part in the boycott, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Abernathy. -
Freedom RIdes
Freedom Rides were journeys by Civil Rights activists on interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the United States Supreme Court decision which ruled that segregation was unconstitutional for passengers engaged in interstate travel. -
The integration of Ole Miss
An African-American man named James Meredith attempted to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Roits briefly broke out on the Ole Miss campus, with riots ending in two dead, hundreds wounded and many others arrested. -
Martin Luther King Jrs. Letter from Birmingham Jail
The letter defends the idea of nonviolent resistance to racism, arguing that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws. It became a key text for the American civil rights movement of the early 1960s, and was a big part in trying to get rid of segregation. -
Martin Luther King I have a Dream Speach
Have a Dream was a public speech delivered by civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. on August 28 1963, in which he called for an end to racism in the United States. He made this speach to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington, the speech was a defining moment of the Civil Rights Movement. -
March on Washington
Organized civil rights and religious groups, the event was designed to show the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face across the country. The march, which became a key moment in the growing struggle for civil rights in the United States, this is when Martin Luther King Jr.’s "I Have a Dream" speech. -
Malcom X joins civil rights
Malcolm X aka Malik El-Shabazz, representative of the Nation of Islam, broke with that organization, and then made a public offer to join with any civil rights organization that accepted the right to self-defense and thought of Black nationalism. -
Voting Rghts Act
Signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson,aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment, which let them have a role in choosing their leaders, and that helped them so they can try to vote for non-racist leaders. -
Martin Luther King Jr. assassination
On this day civil rights leader Martin luther King Jr. was assasinated out side of his Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.I think that this event was a big part of the civil rights movement because this is when their leader is taken and roits break out it all falls apart from their.
