Birminghamprotest

civil rights movement

By un364406

  • Brown v Board of Education of Topeka

    Brown v Board of Education of Topeka
    Led to desegregation of public schools.

  • Greensboro Sit-In Movement

    Greensboro Sit-In Movement
    Civil protest.

  • Letter from a Birmingham Jail

    Letter from a Birmingham Jail
    Defends his strategy of nonviolent resistance.

  • University of Alabama Desegregated

    University of Alabama Desegregated
    U. of Alabama is desegrigated

  • March on Washington

    March on Washington
    MLK delivered his "I have a dream speech" here.

  • Freedom Summer Project

    Freedom Summer Project
    attempt to register as many African-American voters in Mississippi as posible.

  • 24th Amendment

    24th Amendment
    Abolished poll taxes.

  • Martin Luther King wins Nobel Peace Prize

    Martin Luther King wins Nobel Peace Prize
    Youngest winner of this award since 1901.

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Voting Rights Act of 1965
    Stopped unfair methods of preventing black people from voting.

  • Watts Riots

    Watts Riots
    Fight against police brutality. 34 dead