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Montgomery Bus Boycott
*civil-rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating
*took place from December 5, 1955 to December 20, 1955
*known as the first large-scale U.S demonstration against segregation. -
Little Rock 9
*a group of nine black students that enrolled at a white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in September,1957
*the first day of school at the High School the governor called a Arkansas Guard to block off the black students -
Sit-ins: Greensboro,N.C
*the sit-in was a civil rights protest that started in 1960
*when a young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro
*the sit-in movement spread to college towns throughout the South, the many protesters were arrested for trespassing. -
Kings March on Washington D.C
*was a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963
*some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln memorial in D.C
*for jobs and freedom the event aimed to draw, attention to continuing challenges and inequalities -
Selma-Montgomery March
*part of a series of Civil Rights protest that occurred in 1965 in Alabama, a Southern State with deeply racist policies
*during March in that year, in an effort to register black voters in the South
*the protesters who were marching the 54 mile walk to Montgomery were getting involved with deadly violence from local authorities and white people
*March 7th-March 21 1965 -
Watts Riot 1965
*also known as the Watts Rebellion.
*large series of riots that happened during August 11,1965
*happened in a black neighborhood of Watts in L.A
*lasted for 6 days which resulted in 34 deaths, 1,032 injuries, and 4,000 arrests
*$40 million worth of damage -
Newark Riots 1967
*one of the 154 Race Riots that swept cities in the U.S during the "long hot Summer of 1967"
*occurred in the City of Newark, N.J
*July 12-July 17 -
Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike
*night before they killed MLK he told a group of Striking Sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee
*we've got to give ourselves to this struggle until the end
*nothing would be more tragic than to stop at that point in Memphis
*February 11th-April 16th 1968 -
LA Riots 1992
*four police officers beat an African American motorist in a video
*hours after that happened and it was announced, the violence started to come from the protest as it all started
*in South Central LA the protesters began to block traffic and beat motorists, wrecked and looted numerous downtown stores and buildings, and set more than 100 fires.
*April 29-May 4th, 1992 -
Ferguson MO, 2014
*Michael Brown was an unarmed teenager, was shot and killed on August 9,2014 by Darren Wilson, a white police officer, in Ferguson, MO.
*there began to be protester's protesting that roiled the area for weeks
*the grand Jury decided not to indict Mr. Wilson, the announcement set off more protesters. -
Baltimore Protests 2015
*Baltimore planned to lay Freddie Gray to rest the whole city went up in Smoke Riots have broke out throughout Baltimore in 3 weeks
*this was because after a 25 year old man died in Police Custody
*a peaceful protest had turned into violence with store getting lotted
*rocks being thrown at police and buildings and cars set on fire
