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Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was started because Rossa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat for a White man. For 381 days they walked and didn't take the bus, it was the first large non violent protest fort the civil rights movement. -
The Little Rock Nine
After Brown V Board Of Ed, they tried to integrate 9 African Amrican students into Little Rock high school. They had their first day of school and were escorted by th National Guard, but Eckford came alone and the picture of the angry adults surrrounding her was plastered ont he newspapers. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
President Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957. It was a push to the civil rights movement to get it going and open the dooor for more to be done to help change the laws. -
Sit-In Movemnet
On Febuary 1st, 1960 four college students went into an all white lunch counter. They ordered cofee and when they wre refused service they sat there and patiently waited to be served. They were attacked, had things dumped on them and they started using this to show how peope can eat together and not be attacked for no reason. -
The Freedom Riders
On May 4th, 1961, 13 African American and white civil rights activests rode the busses together through the deep south. They were trying to integrate bus terminals; they would sit at the counter of the other race to integrate the races. They encountered violence from white protesters along their journey. -
James Meredith and the Desegregation of the University of Mississippi
James Meredith tried to enrole in the Universery of Mississippi, but it caused riots because of the color of his skin. The riots left many injured, 2 dead, and the National Guard had to come in and help break up the fighting. -
Protests in Birmingham
The attacks on the Protests in Birmingham were so important because they got the word out with what was happening. They were attacked with dogs, firehoses, and being arrested/beatten. This also got kids involved. They would be arrested evryotherday and it became a goodthing. Then Dr. king was arrested and that is where he wrote his "I have a dream" speech. -
The March On Washington
There were over 200,000 people in Washington for the march. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr gave his famous "I have a Dream" speech. Poeple came to gain political equality and to gain more significant civil rights. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Lyndon B. Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It stopped all public segregation and stopped employment discrimination bassed on race, gender, reliogio, or anything else. -
The Selma March
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and the SCLC was focusing on Selma, Alabama to have the right for blacks to vote in the south. The march was from Selma to Montgomery. The protesters were attacked by State and local authorities, but finished the walk protected by th National Guard. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Lyndon Johnson was president and saw the violent acts occuring to the nonviolent protesters and realized that he needed to do something to help. He passd the Voting Rights Act of 1965 becase even though the 15th amandment says a man cn vote no matter his race or religion, but it was still very unlikly to see a black man voting, especially in the south. The Act made it so they couldn't be turned away from voting, made pass a litteracy test, or be attacked for voting. -
Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was killed in Memphis, Tennesse on April 4th, 1968. Dr. King was there to help organize the non-violent protest. He was on the balcony of his hotel room in the Lorraine Motel, when he was shot and killed. James Earl Ray, a convicted armed robber escaped from Missouri State Penetentary a year prior and was convicted a year later
