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Brown v.s. Board of Education
Brown wanted to end segregation in schools but the school board was against it. Linda Brown's parents sued the Topeka School Board of Education which denied her from going to the school. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
African American were only allowed to sit in the back of the bus and if a white person needed a seat they would have to give it up. They also couldn't sit in the same aisle as the white people. Rosa park was asked to give up her seat for a White man. She refused and was arrested. Afterwards, many African Americans stopped taking the bus. -
Crisis in Little Rock
The federal judge began to desegregation, buy many vowed to resist it. A few African American Highschoolers enrolled into a white school. The govener wouldn't let the students in the school. Eventually, the students went to school and were taken there everyday by guards. -
The Children’s Marches
Thousands of children marched and got arrested people were attacked with fire hoses and attack dogs. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
He used peace to protest. He helped lead the Bus Boycott and the civil rights movement. He lead most of the civil rights movements. Gave speeches. -
March on Washington
Marchers demanded a passage of the civil rights bill, integration of school, an end to job discrimination, and a program training law. -
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing
A bomb exploded outside the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing four African American girls. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Outlawed segregation in public facilities. Banned discrimination in employment based on a person's race, gender, religion, or nationality. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
King wanted to bring whites and blacks together in a Poor People's Campaign. -
Dr. King’s assassination
A white man named James Earl Ray was convicted and arrested for his murder.
