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1954 Supreme Court case in which racial segregation in public schools was outlawed
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Protest in 1955–1956 by African Americans against racial segregation in the bus system of Montgomery, Alabama
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the most violently attacked sit-in of the '60s and the most publicized. Involving a White mob of several hundred, it went on for several hours while hostile police from Jackson's huge all-White police department stood by approvingly outside and while hostile FBI agents inside (in sun-glasses) "observed."
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1961 event organized by CORE and SNCC in which an interracial group of civil rights activists tested southern states' compliance to the Supreme Court ban of segregation on interstate buses
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The Children’s March has been classified by some as the Chief Watershed of nonviolent
movement in United States, and the Civil Rights Movement’s most important chapter. Was a major factor in national push towards Civil Rights Act of 1964 which prohibited
racial discrimination in hiring practices and public services in United States -
1963 civil rights demonstration in Washington, D.C., in which protesters called for “jobs and freedom”
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On 25 March 1965, Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, where local African Americans, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) had been campaigning for.
