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Brown vs. Board of Education
Supreme Court rules that segregated schools can never be equal in value and education. They were then ordered to desegregate/integrate public schools. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks, a civil rights activist, refuses to give up her seat for a white man and is arrested and jailed as a consequence. This sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
After the arrest of Rosa Parks, the citizens of Montgomery refused to use buses until equal seating was enforced. On January 20th, 1957, the buses were forced to integrate bus systems, hire black drivers, and seat people based on first-come-first-serve basis. -
Little Rock Nine
Nine Black students enrolled in their first day of classes at Little Rock, and the governor ordered the school to stay segregated and blocked the students from entering with mobs and crowds. President Eisenhower himself sent members of the National Guard to escort these students into the school safely. -
Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit-in
Many blacks participated in this sit in to gain the right to be served, and opposed discrimiaiton. Eventually, the loss of business took its toll on the restaurant, and all black customers were served first and restaurants were desegregated. -
Children's March
Since all the adults that were protesting were arrested, black children started to march, and troops arrested and were violent towards children. On this day, President Kennedy order the troops to back off. -
March On Washington
Over 200,000 Americans, not just blacks, gathered and marched in the nation's capitol to gain voting rights, jobs, and overall freedom. This is when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. performed his famous I Have A Dream speech. -
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
A black church was bombed, and four black girls were killed by the bomb. Many people realized that they were not safe, even in church. -
Civil Rights Act
Kennedy was gunned down days after the march, and Lyndon Johnson passed strong civil rights laws which outlawed segregation in public facilities, discrimination in jobs, and general racism in public places. -
Voting Rights Act
Outlawed poll taxes, literacy tests, and other things that prevented blacks from voting aloing with whites.
