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Montgomery Bus Boycott
African Americans refused to ride the busses in Montgomery, Alabama. To protest segragated seating, these protests lasted from December 5, 1955 to December 20, 1955. What started the protests was the arrest of Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on the bus. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
On September 9th 1957 President Dwight D Eisenhower signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1957. This bill included a lot of important things like provisions for the protection of voting. It established the Civil Rights Division in the Justice Department, and empowered federal offcials to prosecute individuals than conspired to deny or abridge another citizens right to vote -
Little Rock 9
Little Rock Nine is a group of nine African American students who were allowed to go to an all white school in Arkansas called Central High. Classes started on September 4th, the govner of Arkansas had the National Guard come in to prevent black students from entering the building. Later that month Dwight D. Eisenhower sent federal troops to escort the "Little Rock Nine" into their first day at Central High on September 25th, 1957 -
The Sit-In Movement
The Sit-In Movement was a series of nonviolent protest in Greensboro North Carolina. Which eventually led to the Woolworth department store chain to remove its policy of racial segregation in Southern States. Most of these protest also ended in violent attacks against African Americans -
The Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 as a form of protest. As a result of these protest one of the buses was lit on fire. -
James Meredith and the Desegregation of the University of Mississippi
After a legal battle, James Meredith an African American man tried to enroll at Ole Miss. Soon after riots broke out on the campus, resulting in two dead after Kennedy had to send out National Guard troops. -
The March on Washington
One of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history and demanded civil and economic rights for African Americans -
Protests in Birmingham
These protests happened after a bombing took place at a church in Birmingham Alabama which killed four African Amrican girls who got trapped inside of the basement of the church. These protests ended in African American people being sprayed with fire hoses and attacked by police dogs. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 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. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public. -
The Selma March
On 25 March 1965, Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, where local African Americans, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference had been campaigning for voting rights -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Congressman John Lewis, Congresswoman Maxine Waters Contents Print Cite The Voting Rights Act, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on August 6, 1965, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States -
The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr
On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and mortally wounded as he stood on the second-floor balcony outside his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. He was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. at St. Joseph Hospital
