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Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to yield her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. She was arrested and fined. The boycott of public busses by blacks in Montgomery began on the day of Parks' court hearing and lasted 381 days. -
SNCC founded
Student Nonviolent Coordinat Committee, it emerged by Ella Baker, held at Shaw University -
Freedom Riders
Civil Rights activist who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern U.S. -
Medgar Evers murdered
Evers was assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith, a member of the WhiteCitizens' Council, a group formed in 1954 to resist integration of schools and Civil Right activity. Evers' murder and the resulting trials inspired civil rights protesters, as well as numerous works of art, music, & film. -
March on Washington
Was oneof the largest political rallies for human rights in U.S. History demanded civil and economic rights, & also jobs for African-American people. -
24th Amendment passes
Prohibiting any poll tax in elections for Federal officials. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Is a landmark piece of Civil Rights legislation in the U.S. that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national orgin.It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in scholls, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public. -
Selma March
Martin Luther King Jr. led thousands of non-violetion demonstation to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, 5 days, 54 miles march with local African-Americans, and with the SNCC. -
Voting Rights Act
Signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson, aimd to overcome legal barriers at the state and ocal levels that prevented Afican-American from exercising their right to vote (15th Amendment 1870) under the constitution of the U.S. -
Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
Martin was an American Clergyman and Civil Rights leader who was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
