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The United States Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education
Topeka, Kansas, declares that racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional. -
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat
front of the “colored section” of a bus to a white passenger. In response to her arrest Montgomery’s black community launched a successful year-long bus boycott. Montgomery’s buses were desegregated on Dec. 21, 1956. -
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference
a civil rights group, is established by Martin Luther King, Charles K. Steele, and Fred L. Shuttlesworth. -
MLK "I Have A Dream"
He wrote this speech containing the civil right movement along with it being the last speech that day. because after he spoke nobody else thought it was nothing else better to be said! -
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
is attended by about 250,000 people, the largest demonstration ever seen in the nation’s capital. -
President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act.
It prohibited any kind of discrimination based on race, religion, color, or national origin. -
Black Panthers
Believed that the non-violent campaign of Martin Luther King had failed and any promised changes to their lifestyle -
MLK JR was shot as he stands
on the balcony outside his hotel room. Escaped convict and committed racist James Earl Ray is convicted of the crime. -
President Bush reverses himself and signs the Civil Rights
strengthening existing civil rights laws and providing for damages in cases of intentional employment discrimination. -
The first race riots
Los Angeles after a jury acquits four white police officers for the videotaped beating of African American Rodney King.
