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The freedom Riders
Civil rights activists, who rode interstate buses into the segregated sputter United States, in 1961, subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States supreme court decision -
Martin Luther kings "I Have A Dream"
August 28, 1963, King made a speech during the march on Washington for jobs and freedom. -
Boston busing
Boston public schools were undercover control to desegregate through a system of busing students -
The civil rights act of 1964
It ended segregation in public places and banned discrimination of employment on race, color, religion, and national origin -
Freedom summer
Mississippi project, was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi -
The voting rights acts of 1965
A landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting -
Race riots in watts and other cities
The watts riots sometimes referred to the watts rebellion, took place in the watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, from August 11-16, the riots were blamed on police racism -
SNCC
A group to give young blacks more of a voice in the Civil Rights Movement, the SNCC soon became one of the movements radical branches in the wake of the Greensboro sit-in at a lunch counter closed to blacks, Stella Baker -
Martin Luther kings Assassination
MLK an American civil rights leader was shot at the lorraine motel in Memphis, TN. On April 4th 1968 he was rushed to St.Joeseph hospital and was pronounced dead at 7:05 pm -
Rodney king trial
I'm April 29.1992 the jury squirted three of the officers but could not agree on one of the charges against powell