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Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Boycott took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights to protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, an African Americans women refused to to yield her bus seat to a white man. The Supreme Court ordered Montgomery to integrate its bus system. Martin Luther King Jr. became a national reputation as a civil rights leader. -
Integration of Little Rock Central
On September 3, 1957, a federal judge ordered public school in Little Rock, Arkansas to begin desegregation. The Arkansas National Guard in an effort to preen nine African American students from integrating the high school . President Eisenhower sent in Army troops to make sure the Black students were allowed into school. Eight of nine students completed the school year at Central High School. -
First lunch counter sit in
During the 1960s, the Greensboro sit-in was a civil rights protest African Americans students staged a sit-in at a segregated. On February 1, 1960, four African American students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical colleges sat down at lunch counter in Woolworth’s drugstore in Greensboro. Their actions made an immediate, Woolworth’s and other establishments to change their segregation policies. -
Freedom Rides
In 1960, the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in interstate transport was illegal. On May, 1961, the civil rights group Congress of Racial Equality organized Freedom Rides to test whether southern states were complying with the ruling. In late 1962, CORE victory for the Freedom Rides. -
Birmingham campaign
In early 1960s, Birmingham was a steel-mill town with a long history of bigotry. On May 2, 1963, more than 1,000 African American youth marched from Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church into the city center. On May 3, 1963, police in Birmingham turned high-pressure fire hoses on children during a civil rights march. Four African American girls killed in bombing and CORE held a march. The march brought more attention to the hostile atmosphere in Birmingham. -
Civil Right Act of 1964
On August 28, more than 250,000 people marched in Washington. The Civil Rights Act of 1964, president Lyndon Johnson passed a law to protect employees and job applicants from employment discrimination based on race, religion, and national origin. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The civil rights movement continued to gain support around the country. In August, Congressed passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The act outlawed literacy tests and other tactics used to deny African Americans the right to vote.
