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Brown vs. Board of Education
Brown's daughter was forced to go to a black school farther away from white school. Thurgood Marshall fought for the NAACP against John W. Davis. Marshall had won 15 of the last 17 he had fought for and Davis had argued the most cases as a lawyer in front of the Supreme Court. -
Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks was forced to give up her seat because there was a white man who needed a seat and she did not give up her seat. She was sent to jail, and so a bus boycott began and most black people stopped taking the bus. This was intended to run the public transportation system out of order. This was to force the city to let African Americans get a seat on a "first come, first serve" basis. -
Little Rock 9
Alambama schools were forced to start to desegregate and day after day 9 black students tried to enter the school with escorts but were not sucessful. After federal troops were order to come help with the escort the "Little Rock 9" finally made it into the school. -
Birmingham Alabama Civil Rights Riots
Was one of the most rascist cities in the US. There police chief Was the most rascist and King knew that if they could peacfully protest Conner, the police chief, would show his brutality and America would see it all. President sends 3,000 troops down to Birmingham to restore the peace and eventually desegregate the city. -
Children Marches
The Birmingham Children's Crusade was a march by hundreds of school students in Birmingham, Alabama, May 2–5, 1963, during the American Civil Rights Movement's Birmingham campaign. Initiated and organized by Rev. James Bevel, the purpose of the march was to walk downtown to talk to the mayor about segregation in their city. Many children left their schools and were arrested, set free, and then arrested again the next day. The marches were stopped by the head of police "Bull Connor" who brought f -
March on Washington
On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Organized by a number of civil rights and religious groups, the event was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face across the country. The march, which became a key moment in the growing struggle for civil rights in the United States, culminated in Martin Luther King. -
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing
A bomb blast at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, kills four African-American girls during church services. At least 14 others are injured in the explosion including Sarah Collins, the 12 year-old sister of Addie Mae Collins, who loses an eye. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. -
Dr. King’s assassination
Dr. King is assasinated at the Loraine motel.
