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Banning segregation
The U.S Supreme Court banned segregation in bus travel. -
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Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement
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Freedom Riders
The Freedom Riders tested the laws of interstate bus travel in the segregated South. -
The NAACP
Rosa and her husband Raymond work with Montgomery branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP's) programs. Rosa Parks acts as secretary and later a youth leader for the NAACP. -
Segregation on the bus
Rosa Parks first meets Martin Luther King Jr. Also, later that year in December, Rosa Parks is arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give her seat on the bus to a white passenger. She is arrested, fingerprinted, jailed by police and fined $14. She was also found guilty of breaking segregation laws. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King becomes the president of the Montgomery Improvement Association which was organised due to protest against the incident involving Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott begins which will last 381 days. -
The Buses and Montgomery
The Montgomery buses are desegregated and black passengers could legally take any seat on the city's buses. -
Rosa Parks leaves town
Rosa Parks, her husband and mother move to Detroit where she works as a seamstress. Rosa then leaves to work at Virginia University in Hampton in January. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is formed to form a strategy for ending segregation, and Martin Luther King is elected president. Later that year, Congress of the United States also passes the Civil Rights Act of 1957. -
Freedom Riders take a beating
An integrated group of 'Freedom Riders' left Washington, DC on Greyhound buses, and, upon arrival near Anniston, Alabama, the bus was burned, and the riders were beaten. On October 16th, Martin Luther King meets with President Kennedy to gain his support for the civil rights movement. And later in December, Dr. King and other protesters are arrested in Albany, Georgia -
"I Have a Dream."
Martin Luther King meets with President John F. Kennedy and after their meeting Dr. King delivers his famous "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to a crowd estimated at 250,000 at the Marched on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Rosa Parks is one of the many in the crowd. Rosa Parks speaks at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) -
JFK
On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assisnated just 3 months after his meeting with Martin Luther King Jr. and his presence during the "I Have a Dream" speech. -
Race Riots in Detroit
Worst riots in U.S. history results in 43 deaths in Detroit and federal troops being called out to restore order -
Summer Riots
Between May 1 and October 1 of 1967, about 43 people had been killed due to the summer rioting going on over the segregation matters. -
Martin Luther King Jr dies
Martin Luther King Jr was assasinated on the balcony of his Memphis hotel room. -
Maynard Jackson
Maynard Jackson (Atlanta), first black elected mayor of a major Southern U.S. city. -
Bakke v. Regents
Supreme Court ruled that fixed racial quotas are illegal after Allan Bakke is denied admission to UC Davis medical school even though his grades and scores were higher than most minority applicants admitted.
