civil rights

  • brown vs board of education

    It went to the us supreme court And it was about the desegregation of public schools. whites and blacks could go to the same school.
  • Emmett till murder

    Emmitt till a fourteen yr old boy was kidnaped and killed
  • Montgomery Bus boycott

    Local authorities in Montgomery Alabama arrested Rosa park a black woman for refusing to vacate her seat on a bus.
  • little Rock high school

    one of the first high schools to be segregated
  • civil rights Act

    President Dwight Esenhoward signed into law the civil rights Act..
  • Temple Bombing

    Fifty sticks of dynamite exploded in a recessed entrance way at Atlanta's oldest synagogue
  • New Orlando interrogation

    plan to Desegregate a high school in Orlando
  • Freedom Ride

    Blacks and Whites go and protest for segregation
  • Albany Movement

    Residents of Albany Georgia launched a ambitious campaigns to eliminate segregation
  • Americus Movement

    began the (SNCC) Student Nonviolent Coordinating committee
  • March on Washington

    More than 200,000 blacks and whites gather before Lincoln memorial to protest racial injustice
  • Dr. Kings Assassination

    Martin Luther King Jr was killed by a sniper bullet on his second flour balcony in Memphis Tennessee
  • Poor people campaign

    in the wake of Martin Luther King Jr death his final case the poor people case was cared out.