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Attack of Isaac Woodard
Woodard was returning home on a bus from Georgia. The bus eventually got to a stop and Woodard asked the bus driver if he could stop for him to use the bathroom. The bus driver called the police and they forced him to unboard the bus and started beating him until he got blinded, to then be arrested. He was charged for improper and disorderly conduct. -
Robaron charges genocide
Paul Robeson after the UN convention charges the USA against genocide and states its failure to follow the UN’s laws against it -
Rosa Parks refuse to give seat
On Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to sit in the blacks' section of the bus and give her seat to a white person since she was in the white section. This wasn’t the first time this had happen but it’s the most famous one because the first time would have been seen as taboo. -
Marthin Luther King becomes popular
Martin Luther King Jr. became a very important and influential leader in the civil rights movement. He led the Bus Boycott. He was also responsible for the organization of the nonviolent protests and the March on Washington. -
Student Non-violent Committee
On May 16, 1960, Ella baker founded the Student non-violent committee. This committee criticized leadership, democracity and promoted the black people to understand the importance of their word and to start to believe in themselves. This organization played a very important role in the campaign for civil rights. -
Walk to Freedom
This "walk" was a massive march in the civil rights movement in detroit. Its one of the biggest movements and it drew an estimated of 120000 people and most if not all of them were MLK supporters -
Bloody Sunday
On marco of 1965, Large amounts of marchers started to march. When the marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, policemen were waiting and started to beat the protestors and hurting them. -
FBI vs black panthers
The FBI launched a campaign against the black panthers, a group of black rights supporters that usually tended to be violent, in which they would have people infiltrated in the BPP and create mistrust between the members -
Assassination of Martin Luther king
MLK was staying at a hotel in Tennessee, while he was saluting his fans on the balcony of the hotel, a white shooter killed him with one shot in the head. It is believed by many that the FBI is actually responsible for his assassination.
