civil rights movement

  • school desegragation

    school desegragation
    on may 17 1954 the supreme court decided to desegragaten schools
  • montgomery bus boycott

    montgomery bus boycott
    on december 1,1955 rosa parks refused to give her seat to a white person that got hher arrested causing thousands of african americans to boycot busses
  • little rock nine

    on september 1957 9 african students went to an all white schools
  • greenboro sit ins

    greenboro sit ins
    on febuary 1 1960 four black stuudients sat down at the whites only lounch counter inside the woolworth store
  • the chinldrens march

    the chinldrens march
    on may 2 1963 to keep the movement alive thousands of children some as young as six hit the streats of bermingham alabama
  • march on washinggton

    march on washinggton
    on augist 28 1963 thousands of african americans headed to washinton where martin luther king jr delivered his famous ii have a dream speatch
  • sixteenth streat bombing

    sixteenth streat bombing
    on sonday morning in september 1963 the kkk planted 15 sticks of dynomite on the sixteenth street baptis church and killed 4 children
  • civil roghts act of 1964

    civil roghts act of 1964
    the civil rights act of 1964 outlawed segragation in public facilities
  • voteing acts rights of 1965

    voteing acts rights of 1965
    on august 6 1965 african americans gained the right to vote
  • dr kings assaniasion

    dr kings assaniasion
    on april 4 1968 king got shot to death by james earl ray or lator got arrested