-
-
The court legalized separate-but-equal.
-
They fought to end segregation in schools
-
the case reached the supreme court.
-
The ruling said separate-but-equal schools were unconstitutional
-
-
They prohibited segregation in interstate bus and train stations
-
started in the south
-
African American ministers and civic leaders asked all other African Americans to stay of the buses on December 5th
-
He and 89 others were found guilty of violating an outdated antilabor law forbidding boycotts
-
Dr. King and a white minister rode on a bus without incident
-
he moved to atlanta to be the head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
-
-
Nine African Americans integrated high schools with no problems
-
they decided to test the ruling by sitting in the "whites only" waiting room at the city's bus station; and they were arrested
-
He was elected and removed all white and colored signs
-
-
he went on television and stated that segregation was a moral crisis for the country
-
a bomb went off at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church it killed four black children and injured 14 others.
-
JFK was killed in Dallas,Texas
-
President Johnson vowed to fight to pass President Kennedy's Civil rights bill.
-
MLK won a Nobel Peace Prize
-
People began to help African Americans to be able to vote. A group involved in the effort was the SNCC which included Julian Bond and John Lewis.
-
MLK and other civil rights leaders met in Selma, Alabama to plan some demonstrations and marches to support voting rights for African Americans.
-
Over 4 thousand people came out to march for Voting Rights
-
a million African Americans were registered to vote.
-
He was on his balcony talking to Jesse Jackson and got shot from a rifle.
-
James Earl Ray was sentenced to 99 years for Martin Luther King's death.
-
they demanded the state stop funding places that refused desegregation plans
-
African American Maynard Jackson became vice mayor, African American became a member of the BOE.
-