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The Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Mongomery Bus Boycott began when Rosa Parks revused to get up and fgot to the back of the bus for a white person. Rosa Parls was arrested for the resist and the case reached the supreme court. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
This Act was intened to protect African American's right to vote. Several people in the south tried to stop this Act by putting a compromise to gether which stood in the way of the African Americnas rights to vote. Eisenhower believed it was th right thing to do and that it was a part of the African Americans right of being a human. -
The Little Rock 9
In 1957, 0 African American students won the trial to attend a white school with 2000 hite students. With his futue of relection at stake the govenor of Arkansas demanded troops t not let the African Americans into that school. -
The Sit-in Movement
This movement started when 4 African American students in college demanded to be served ad be treated with the same respect as the whites at a lunch counter. Word spread quickley as to what these boys wre doing and soon enough 300 students had taken part in this Sit-in Movement. IN 2 months this movement had spread across 54 cities and nine states. -
The Freedom Riders
The Freedom Riders were a group of African Americans and and some volunteer white people took a road trip to the south to draw attebtion to its refusel to intergrate busbterminals. these riders borded a southbound interstate bus and when it reached Anniston,Birmingham, and Montgomery, Alabama, a group of white people ttacked them. slit the bus tires and threw rocks at the windows. In Anniston, someone threw a firebomb into one bus. -
James Meredith and the Desegregation of the University of Mississippi
James Meredith was one of th Freedom Riders trying to desegregate interstate bus lines. In September 1962, Meredith tried to register at the university’s admissions office, only to find Ross Barnett, the governor of Mississippi,blocking his path. Meredith then walked onto the campus with 500 federal marshals around him and they were all attacked. The marhsals fired back with tear gas only -
Protests in Birmingham
This was on of the most influential civil rights movemets of the centry. Docotor King came to the conclusion the only was the goverment wil get involved was when there was violence and that is exactly when thy did. fire hoses were pulled out, police dogs attacked the African Americans and a lot of people got hurt. -
The March on Washington
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the March on Washington, or The Great March on Washington, was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history and demanded civil and economic rights for African Americans. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most comprehensive civil rights law Congress had ever enacted. It gave the federal
government the power to prevent racial discrimination in
a couple of areas.This Act made Segregation illegal in a couple of areas and these rules were to be folowed -
The Selma March
In early 1965, Martin Luther King Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference made Selma, Alabama, the focus of its efforts to register black voters in the South. That March, protesters attempting to march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery were met with violent resistance by state and local authorities. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
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The Voting Rights Act, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on August 6, 1965, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
A little after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and on the second-floor balcony outside his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. He was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. at St. Joseph Hospital
