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Rosa Parks arrested
Which began that Civil Rights Movement. She was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to James Blake, a white man who demanded she move from her seat on the bus so he could sit there. He threatened to have her arrested and she didn't back down. -
Official start to the Civil Rights Movement
Rosa Parks' arrest after the disagreement with James Blake on the Bus, sparked the start of the Civil Rights Movement. Using her only phone call in jail Park's called Reverned Nixon, president of the NAACP; a meeting was scheduled for later that night. -
Schools paid to remain segreagted
Voters and representatives in Virginia came to conclusion of paying private schools to keep the segregated. -
90 people arrested
In Montgomery, Alabama, 90 blacks were arrested for leading a bus boycott. -
Sports and social events become segregated
Social and athletic events that were integrated were banned in Louisiana. -
Martin Luther King Jr. shot
In Memphis, Tennessee, Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated by James Earl Ray. This act of violence lead black to cause riots all across to US. -
Supreme Court passes new laws
Laws ending segregation were passed in the Supreme Court -
First black president
Only a short time after segregated sports, school and resturants; the leader of our country is an African American man.
