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Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
In 1955, African Americans boycotted the Alabama bus system to protest against the unfair segregation laws in public transportation .The campaign lasted from December 5, 1955 — the Monday after Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person — to December 20, 1956d when United States Supreme Court declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws unconstitutional. -
Integration of Little Rock Central
The desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, gained national attention on September 3, 1957, when Governor Orval Faubus mobilized the Arkansas National Guard in an effort to prevent nine African American students from integrating the high school. President Dwight D. Eisenhower took action against the defiant governor by ordering one thousand troops from the United States Army 101st Airborne Division in Ft. Campbell, Kentucky to oversee the integration. -
First lunch counter sit-in
On Feb 1, 1960, four African American students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical college, sat down at a lunch counter in Woolworth’s drugstore in Greensboro. They ordered food, but waitress refused to serve them, saying that only white customers could eat at Woolworths. -
Freedom Rides
Civil rights protests in which black people and white people rode interstate buses together in 1961 to test whether southern states were complying with the Supreme Court ruling against segregation in interstate transport. -
Birmingham campaign
On May 2, 1963, more than 1,000 African American youths marched from Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church into the city center. The Birmingham Campaign was a movement led in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) which sought to bring national attention of the efforts of local black leaders to desegregate public facilities in Birmingham, Alabama. Peacefully walking -
March on Washington
A 1963 protest in which more than 250,000 people demonstrated in the nation’s capital for “jobs and freedom” and the passage of civil rights legislation. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
A landmark act that banned discrimination based on sex, race, religion or national origin; the most irritant law since Reconstruction. It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson during the height of the Civil Rights Movement on August 6, 1965, and Congress later amended the Act five times to expand its protections. -
Voting Rights Act
An act of congress outlawing literacy tests and other tactics that had long been used to deny African American the right to vote. It extended the right to vote to African American mens.
