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MLK JR

By Gabriel.madora25
  • 1995 BCE

    LBJ

    LBJ
    Johnson's Great Society was aimed at expanding civil rights, public broadcasting, access to health care, aid to education and the arts, urban and rural development, and public services. He sought to create better living conditions for low-income Americans by spearheading the war on poverty.
  • 1968 BCE

    MLK JR

    MLK JR
    On April 4, 1968 they were striking
    workers in protesting Memphis. Went
    back to the motel. Shot lower right side
  • 1965 BCE

    Malcom X

    Malcom X
    Civil rights leader who was part of the
    Nation of Islam. He wanted black people
    to believe in themselves and start their own business
  • 1965 BCE

    Voting Rights Of 1965

    Voting Rights Of 1965
    Ending the right to vote of African
    American any discrimination in voting.
    Now a federal matter not a state
  • 1965 BCE

    Selma

    Selma
    Black marchers wanted to walk 54 mile
    to Montgomery to register to vote.
  • 1963 BCE

    March Of Washington

    March Of Washington
    It was the largest gathering for civil rights of its time. An estimated 250,000 people attended the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, arriving in Washington, D.C. by planes, trains, cars, and buses from all over the country.
  • 1961 BCE

    The Freedom Riders

    The Freedom Riders
    Freedom Riders were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals.
  • 1960 BCE

    Greensborg Sit ins

    Greensborg Sit ins
    Greensboro sit-in, act of nonviolent protest against a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, that began on February 1, 1960.
  • 1957 BCE

    Little Rock 9

    Little Rock 9
    In 1957, nine ordinary teenagers walked out of their homes and stepped up to the front lines in the battle for civil rights for all Americans. The media coined the name “Little Rock Nine" to identify the first African American students to desegregate Little Rock Central High School.
  • 1955 BCE

    Emmit Till

    Emmit Till
    He was shopping at a store owned by Roy and Carolyn Bryant—and someone said he possibly whistled at Mrs. Bryant, a white woman. At some point around August 28, he was kidnapped, beaten, shot in the head, had a large metal fan tied to his neck with barbed wire, and was thrown into the Tallahatchie River.
  • 1955 BCE

    Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks
    Called "the mother of the civil rights movement," Rosa Parks invigorated the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. Parks' arrest on December 1, 1955 launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott by 17,000 black citizens.
  • 1954 BCE

    Brown vs. Board Of Edu

    Brown vs. Board Of Edu
    On May 17, 1954, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional.

  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference

    Southern Christian Leadership Conference
    From the beginning, the SCLC focused its efforts on citizenship schools and efforts to desegregate individual cities such as Albany, Georgia, Birmingham, Alabama, and St. Augustine, Florida. It played key roles in the March on Washington in 1963 and the Selma Voting Rights Campaign and March to Montgomery in 1965.

  • Civil Rights Act (1964)

    Civil Rights Act (1964)
    On July, 2, 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson
    and Martin Luther King Jr. Enabled the
    federal government to prevent racism