Civil Rights Timeline (1950-1970)

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  • Rosa Parks

    In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a crowded bus when ordered by the bus driver to give it to a white man. She was arrested by police and charged with disorderly conduct and breaking local laws.

  • The Montgomery Bus Boycott

    In Montgomery, Alabama, a successful 381-day boycott to desegregate its buses since the law reserved the front seats of their bus for white people (ended in 1957).

  • Little Rock Nine

    The National Association for the Advancement of coloured People (NAACP) decided that the Supreme Court’s decision to end segregation in schools had to be implemented. They decided that Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, would be the place with nine African American students enrolling in this previously white-only school.

  • Mob Violence in Alabama

    The KKK forced the Greyhound bus off the road as it crossed into Alabama and used baseball bats, iron bars, and knives to smash its windows and slash its tyres. They also firebombed the bus.

  • The Freedom Rides

    Freedom riders where groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregation bus terminals.

  • March on Washingtion

    Martin Luther King Jr. helped organise a march fo about 250,000 people in support of civil rights and demanding an end to segregation. At the ‘March on Washington’, on 28th of August 1963, King gave his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech, urging the American people and their lawmakers to put an end to racial discrimination.