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The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Civil rigths activist refused to use the buses in Montgomery, Alabama. They would not return until they were treated fairly and equally. -
The Little Rock 9
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. They were prevented from entering the segregated school. They then attended after the intervention of President Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1957. It protected votinh rights, added a Civil Rights Division to the Justice Department, and six members of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission were charged with voter infringement. It signaled a growing federal commitment to the cause of civil rights. -
The Sit-in Movement
Four black students in Greensboro, North Carolina were refused service and sat until the store closed and reufse to leave. It created a wave of anti-segregation sit-ins across the South and opened a national awareness of the depth of segregation in the nation. -
The Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States. They intended to test the Supreme Court's ruling in Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which declared segregation in interstate bus and rail stations unconstitutional. -
James Meredith and the Desegregation of the University of Mississippi
James Meredith broke through racial divide to become the first black student to enroll at the segregated University of Mississippi. -
Protests in Birmingham
A bomb blast at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, kills four African-American girls during church services. Young people showed bravey by marching and protesting in Birmingham, Akabama. This brought segregation ti its knees/ -
The March on Washington
Dr, King and thousands of people marched through the capitol and he spoke at he Lincoln memorial. He said his famous I have a dream speech. It gave a sense of hope/ They marched for human rights. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Congress made a legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
The Selma March
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 (SNCC) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) had been campaigning for voting rights. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
President Lyndon Johnson 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. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Shortly after 6 p.m. 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. by James Earl RayHe was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. at St. Joseph Hospital.
