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Civil Rights Movement
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Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
Brown vs. Board of Education was about African American kids and whiet kids going to school together. -
Rosa Parks Aressted
Rosa Parks was arrested because she refused to give her seat up to a white man. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus boycott started because Rosa Park got arrested. It started in 1955 and ended in 1956. -
Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine were Nine teenagers that went to an all white school, Central High School, in Little Rock, Arkansas. -
Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit-In's Begin
The Greensboro sit-ins was in North Carolinia. Four men from Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina sat down at the lunch counter inside the Woolworth's store. They sta there until the store closed. -
"I have a dream" speech
Martin Luther King Jr. made the speech "I have a dream" on August 28, 1963 in Washington, D.C. -
Bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
The Ku Klux Klan set a bomb inside of the Sixteenth Street Babtist Church. -
Civil Rights Act passed
The Civil Rights Act passed on July 2, 1964. -
Voting Rights Act passed
The Voting Rights Act passed throught 1965. there is no specific date that they passed the Voting Rights Act. -
March from Selma to Montgomery
Marin Luther King Jr. and a group of African- Americans marched from Selma to Montgomery -
Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 by James Earl Ray.
