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Montgomery Bus Boycott
This was sparked up by the arrest of Rosa Parks, for refusing to give up her seat to a white man, in Montgomery Alabama. For 381 days black citizens refused to ride the buses, which was a peaceful protest. The result of the boycott was the integration of buses. -
Greensboro Sit-In
Four Arfican-American high school students went into Woolworths department store and sat down at the bar, trying to cross the invisible racism wall. -
March on Washington
In Washington D.C. Martin Luther King Jr. led a march, which gathered hundreds of thousands of people to march with him. This is the day he gave his famous, "I Have A Dream" speech. -
King's Assassination
In Memphis, Tennessee Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, and pronounced dead at 7:04PM. James Earl Ray, the assassin, was sentenced to 99 years in prison in the Tennessee state penitentiary. -
Wilmington Riots
Groups of young people that were outraged by King's assassination went through the streets damaging stores and sreaming and yelling.
