Civil Rigths

  • Brown vs Board of Education

    Brown vs Board of Education
    Brown sued the board because they denied the right to attend their school
  • Bus Boycott

    Bus Boycott
    Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, was arrested after.
  • Nonviolence protest

    Refusing to obey certain laws in order to change those laws, boycotting etc are used
  • Childrens march

    6000 children 6-16, police used hoses dogs and clubs, over 600 were arrested, reported in the media
  • Church bombing

    one of the most racial cities was birminghan, civil rights protests where there
  • March on washington

    Dr. King delivered a speech, job discrimination, lack of rights, protested police brutality
  • Kings assasination

    April 4, 1968, Dr. King was killed by James Earl Ray in Memphis Tennessee, even in death he is one of the most influential figures in civil rights and nonviolent protests.
  • Malcolm X

    member of the Nation of Islam favored separation from whites encouraged AAs to defend themselves using what ever is necessary assassinated feb 21 1965