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Montgomery Bus Boycott
Campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. The color people had to sit in the back of the bus but if the bus got too full they had to give up their seat to a white passenger. -
Birmingham Campaign
Martin Luther King and the SCLC joined forces with local Birmingham activists. -
Integration of Little Rock Nine
The color students was swarm by a mob of white people who didn’t want them in the school. -
First lunch counter sit-in
A group of color student went to sit at the sit-in counter, but the waitress refused to serve them at the counter. -
Freedom Rides
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961. -
March on Washington
Martin Luther King lead the march of color people over 250,000 thousand people in Washington. -
Civil Right Act
Discrimination on basis of race, sex, religion or national origins were banned and everyone had equal rights. -
Voting Right Act
Color people protested and got the right to vote.
