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Brown v. Board of Education
This event is important to the Civil Rights Movement, because it made it to where segregation in public schools is illegal and unconstitutional. (Allowed black and white people to go to school together). -
Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Bus Seat
This was a very important part of the Civil Rights Movement, because it started the Montgomery Bus Boycott and showed African Americans that they didn't have to put up with the treatment they were getting. It was one of the things that started the Civil Rights Movement. -
Sit-Ins
African America students from all over started participating in sit-ins to show protest them not being allowed in certain public places. They did not use violence even when being beaten. Their composure got the nation's attention. -
Freedom Riders
The Freedom Riders were both African American and white people in America. They both got together and protested for African Americans to have equal rights. -
"I Have A Dream"
Martin Luther King Jr. gave this speech to give African Americans hope that they would keep pushing for equallity. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
This act was important and made discrimination against a person because of their race, color, sex, religion, or national origin illegal. -
Malcom X Assassinated
Malcom X was another very important civil rights leader and motivated many African Americans to distance themselves from white people and form their own self-governing communities. -
The Watts Riot
Riots began breaking out on the streets in LA after President Johnson signed the voting right act. Even though African Americans were allowed to vote, and they were becoming more equal (according to the law), citizens did not see it that way and still did not treat them equally. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr. was the man that sparked the Civil Rights movement and came up with a different and more effective way of approaching it. Him being assassinated was a devastating, but eye opening tradgedy for the United States. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968 Passed
This was a major achievment in the Civil Rights Movement, because everyone was finally considered equal under the law, even though not everyone looked at it that way.
