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Montgomery bus boycott
The campaign lasted from December 5,1955 the Monday after Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person to December 20, 1956. -
Integration of Little Rock central
The racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. -
First Lunch counter sit-in
four African American college students sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworth in Greensboro, North Carolina, and politely asked for service. Their request was refused. -
Freedom rides
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States. -
March on Washington
On March 250,00 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Also known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. -
Birmingham campaign
The Birmingham campaign, or Birmingham movement, was a movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. -
Civil right act 1964
On 1964 the civil right law in the United States that out laws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Voting right act of 1965
This act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War.
