Civil Rights Movement

Brown v. Board of Education

May 17, 1954

A supreme court case that ended racial segregation in public schools.

Rosa Parks

Dec 1, 1955

Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama on a bus.

Greensboro, North Carolina

Feb 1, 1960

Four college students refuse to leave a whites only lunch counter without being served.

March on Washington

Aug 28, 1963

250,000 marched in D.C. for civil rights. Martin Luther King gives his I have a dream speech.

Civil Rights Act

Jul 2, 1964

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the act to prevent employment discrimination.

Voting Rights Act

Aug 6, 1965

President Johnson signed to prevent literacy tests from being a voting requirement.

Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

Apr 4, 1968

Martin Luther King Jr. was shot on the balcony of his hotel room in Tennessee.