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Heading into Birmingham
King flew into Birmingham to hold a planning meeting with members of the African American Community. -
Posting Bail
More than a thousand African American children marched on Birmingham. -
Dream of Equality
More than 250,000 people including about 750,000 whites coveraged on the nations capital. Where Martin Luther KIng Jr. gave his "I have a dream speech". -
Urban Violence Erupts
Mid 1960's, clashes between white authority and black civilians spread like wildfire. In New York CIty, an encounter between white police and and African American teenagers ended in a death of a 15 year old student. -
CIvil Rights Act of 1964
Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, national origin, and gender. -
Voting RIghts Act of 1965
COngress finally passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Act eliminated the so-called literacy tests that disqualified many voters. -
The Selma Campaign
Start of 1965 the SCLC conducted a major voting rights campaign in Selma, Alabama where SNCC had been working for two years to register voters. -
The Selma Campaign March
Marchers again set out for Montgomery, this time with the federal protection. Soon the number grew to an army of 25,000. -
Riot
Five days after President JOhnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, one of the worst riots in the nations history raged through the streets of Watts, a predominantly African American neighborhood in Los Angeles. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
This act ended discrimination in housing. After school segregation ended, the numbers of African Americans who finished high school and who went to college increased significantly.
