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1963 BCE
Birmingham Demonstrations
A movement organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference which practiced nonviolent protest campaigns. They boycotted and protested to open the door for negotiation, which they eventually did. Local business leaders decided to desegregate the big department stores. -
1963 BCE
March on Washington
A massive protest march on the nations capital aimed to draw attention to continuing challenges and inequalities black people had to face. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech here and voices were heard by the whites and most importantly government officials. -
1961 BCE
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court rulings in favor of blacks. This helped them achieve some reform. -
1960 BCE
Sit-ins
African American students would sit at mainly southern stores to protest against the refusal of service towards black people. This movement spread quickly and got much attention for the civil rights movement. -
1957 BCE
Little Rock Nine
Nine African Americans would attend Central High School after the desegregation law was ordered following the Brown decision to attempt to equalize the education barriers that had already been developed. -
1956 BCE
Montgomery Bus Boycott
After Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus and was arrested,African Americans began boycotting the bus and was successful. This led to the Supreme court ruling bus segregation unconstitutional. -
1954 BCE
Brown v. the Board of Education
The United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
