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bus boycott
Four days before the boycott, Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving her seat up to a white man. This begin a boycott on city buses. -
Little Rock Nine
Little Rock Nine was a group of 9 black students who enrolled in Littlerock's all-white high school. On the first day of school Arkansas National Guard to blocked the black students from entering the school. Later in the month, president Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in troops to escort the nine students into school. -
Wool Worths's Sit-in
On February 1,1960 four Black students sat down at a counter in Woolworth's and asked for service. They did not get there service and were asked to leave, but they did not move from there seats. Now 6 months later the store agrees to serve blacks. -
Children's Crusade
On May 2-10, 1963,Thousands of kids participated in a series of non-violent demonstrations called Children's Crusade. it turned out that the actions of these children helped make a change in Birmingham. -
Martin Luther King Jr Speech
Martin Luther King Jr speech is about jobs and freedom, in which he calls the end to racism in the united states and called for civil and economic rights. -
Birmingham church bombing
On September 15, 1963 a church in Birmingham was bombed before morning services, killing four young girls, and many other people injured. Outrage over the bombing started. -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended segregation public places, and education, and the ability to vote. Proposed by John F. Kennedy, signed by president Lyndon B. Johnson. -
Freedom march
In 1965 the freedom speech, march of the year, protesters walked a 54 mile route from Selma to Montgomery to get the ability to vote, causing horrible violence from white vigilante groups.
