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Brown v. Board
Was a case filed by the NAACP against the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. Said that segregated schools were not equal, violating the constitution. -
Montgomery Bus Boycotts
Many followers of the Civil Rights Movement took Rosa Parks' event as an opportunity to challenge segregation on Montgomery buses, and began a year long boycott. -
SCLC rise
The SCLC was a national church based civil rights group founded by MLK and primarily made up of members of black churches throughout the south and began to increase in -
SNCC Sit-ins
Black students refused to leave a lunch counter, attracted hundreds of to protest the unfair treatment of Blacks in public places. -
Freedom Rides
A series of bus rides from DC to the South with integrated passengers sitting together, used to see if Jim Crow on interstate travel was gone. -
March on Washington
The March on Washington was an integrated march in DC whose goal was to pressure Congress to pass sweeping civil rights legislation. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Was an Act that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Started under JFK and finally passed after his assassination under LBJ. -
Voting Rights Act
The Voting Rights Act was a federal law that said that the vote had to be open to everyone, and that the federal government would enforce everyone's right to vote. -
March to Montgomery
King led a march on to the Pettus bridge, three thousand marchers left Selma for Montgomery on March 21. Nearly 25,000 people joined the Selma marchers on at the city limits of Montgomery. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination
Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4 when he went outside on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis.
