Integration and Civil Rights, 1945-1968

By meghil

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

    Decided segregation of schools was unconstitutional

  • Rosa Parks is arrested for sitting in white section on bus

  • Civil Rights Act of 1957 passed

  • National Gaurd prevents 9 black children from going to Little Rock's Central High School

  • First Freedom Ride

  • Medgar Evers assassinated

  • "I Have a Dream" Speech and March on Washington

  • Explosion at black church in Birmingham, Alabama kills four girls

  • Civil Rights Act

  • Martin Luther King, Jr. assasinated