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Brown v. The Board of Education
Brown v. The board of education started in December 9 1952 it was a supreme court in which justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. It was a Civil Right Movement. It helped establish the "Separate but equal" education. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Montgomery Bus boycott was a civil right which African Americans denied to ride city buses. They wanted to protest for segregated seating. A few days before the boycott started Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man. She was arrested. -
Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine black students who enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957. On September 4, 1957, the first day of classes at Central High, Governor Orval Faubus called in the Arkansas National Guard to block the black students’ entry into the high school. -
Sit-Ins
The civil rights movement had gained strong momentum. The nonviolent measures employed by Martin Luther King Jr. he helped American activist win supporters across the country. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom riders were groups of white and African American civil rights activist who participated in freedom rides. Bus trips through the American south in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals. -
Brimingham demonstrations
Brimingham, Alabama remained a largely segregated city in the spring of 1963 when Martin Luther King Jr. and his colleagues at the souther Christian leadership. -
March on Washington
The March on Washington was a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Also known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the event aimed to draw attention to continuing challenges and inequalities faced by African Americans a century after emancipation