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The Movement of Civil Rights
The civil rights movement was a struggle by African Americans in the mid-1950s to late 1960s to achieve civil rights equal to those of whites, including equal opportunity in employment, housing, and education, as well as the right to vote. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown was trying to get schools to not be segregated. This case was decided by the Supreme Court. The decision ruled out "seperate but equal" educational systems for whites and african americans. -
The Montgomery bus boycott
Social and also political campaign against the racial segregation policy on public transportation. -
The Montgomery bus boycott
This is the day when the bus boycott has ended. And segregation on buses is illegal. -
Lunch counter sit-in
Four college students start to sit in restaurants where whites go. They are not going to leave until they get served. -
Congress of Racial Equality, Freedom Rides
They organize freedom rides to test the new Interstate Commerce Commission court orders and regulations. In several places riders are attcked by mobs. -
Unired Farmer Workers Union
The leader is Cesar Chavez, organizes to win barter power for Mexican Americans. -
March on Washington
JFK comes in contact with the leaders of civil rights at the white house in attempt to call of the March on Washington which is going to be held in August. -
March on Washington
Over a quarter of a million people participate in the March on Washington on August 28, 1963, and hear Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his "I Have a Dream" speech. -
Malcom X
Malcolm X's militant eloquence is a rival and alternative to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s message of Christian non-violence. -
National Organization for Woman
This organization is founded because woman politically fight for full equality for sexes.
