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Brown v. board of education
Black children were not permitted into a white public school; they had to go to another school for just black students. The black students got the same equipment, and where supposed to be treated as the white students where. -
Montgomery bus boycott
The bus boycott happened in Montgomery, Alabama it was to oppose the policy of racial segregation on the local bus. December 1st Rosa Parks an African American lady was asked to move to the back of the bus for a white person could have her seat. At this she refused and the supreme court declared that laws requiring segregated bus to be unconstitutional. -
Woolworth's sit-in
Four African American’s in sat at a lunch table and refused to get up when the waiter told them, that she would not serve them. This life changing even happened in North Carolina. -
Freedom Rides
The first Freedom Ride took place on May 4, 1961 when seven blacks and six whites left Washington, D.C., on two public buses bound for the Deep South. They intended to test the Supreme Court's ruling in Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which declared segregation in interstate bus and rail stations unconstitutional. -
March on Washington
There were more than 250,000 demonstrators that where participating in the march on Washington for jobs and freedom. This was the largest demonstration for human rights in the united states history. -
Birmingham Children's march and boycott
On Sunday morning, September 15, 1963, a bomb exploded in the 16th Street Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama. The explosion killed four young girls who were in the church for Sunday school and injured another 20 people. -
Srlma to Montgomery March
About six hounded people marched from Selma Alabama to the capital Montgomery. The reason they did this march was to demonstrating right for African Americans to have the right to vote. When these hounded of people passed the Edmund Pettus Bridge there where heavily armed troops to kepp them out.
