Civil Rights Events 1950's and 1960's

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    A case to end segregation in classrooms
  • Desegregation at Little Rock

    Protests against desegregation got so bad they had to have police escorts.
  • Sit in Campaign

    African Americans would host a lot of Sit in protests in order to protest against segregation.
  • Mississippi Riot

    An African American Male had a case that allowed him to attend an all white school.
  • March on Washington

    Protest for the civil rights movement, over 250,000 people attended
  • Selma

    A march with over 600 people that marched from Selma Alabama to Montgomery. Nicknamed bloody Sunday due to the horrible brutality and force used against peaceful protestors.