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Rosa Parks
Rosa parks got on a bus to go home after work, but in 1955 buses in Montgomery reserved seats in the front of the bus for whites only and the back for African Americans. She took a seat just behind the white section. Soon all of the seats on the bus were filled. When the driver noticed that a white man was standing he told Parks and three other African Americans in her row to get up and let the white man sit down. The other three got up , but Rosa did not. The driver then called the montgmery po -
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When Nixon heard that Rosa had been arrested he wanted to help Rosa with her situation by asking her permission to break down segregation on the bus with your case. -
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
A meeting was held at Dexter Avenue Baptist church, Where Dr.KING was the pastor. In the deep, resonant tones and powerful phrases that characterized his speaking style, King encouraged the people to continue their protest. -
Crisis in Little Rock
The Arkansas school board in Little Rock won a court order to let nine African American students be admitted to Central High, a school with 2,000 White students. -
The sit-in movement
The four friends entered the Woolworth’s a whites only department store. Thay sit there until they were served as the same as white people. By the end of the week over 300 students were taking part. -
The Freedom Rider
The first freedom riders boarded several southbound interstate buses. When the buses arrived in Anniston, Birmingham, and Montgomery, Alabama, angry white mobs attacked them. The mobs slit the bus tires and threw rocks at the windows. In Anniston, someone threw a firebomb into the bus, but fortunately no one was killed. -
James Meredith
Applied for a transfer to the university of Mississippi. Up to that point, the university had avoided complying with the supreme Court ruling ending segregated education. Meredith tried to register at the university’s admissions office only to find Ross Barnett, the governor of Mississippi, blocking his path. -
The march on Washington
More than 200,000 demonstrators of all race flocked to the nations capital. The audience heard speeches and sang hymns and sons as they gathered peacefully near the Lincoln Memorial. -
Malcolm X
Had became a symbol of the black power movement. He began to educate himself and played an active role in the prison debate society. -
The voting rights act of 1965
The house of representatives passed the voting rights bill by a wide margin. This allowed everyone no matter their skin color to vote like whites. -
The watts Riot
A riot erupted in Watts, an African American neighborhood in Los Angles. Allegations of police brutality had served as the catalyst before this uprising., that lasted for 6 days and required over 14000 members of the National Guard and 1,500 law officers to restore order. -
King is assassinated
As Dr Martin Luther King Jr. stood on his hotel balcony in Memphis he was assassinated by a sniper. however in remberance of his death thay passed the civil rights act of 1968.