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Civil Rights Movement
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Brown v. Board of Education
1954 Supreme Court case in which racial segregation in public schools was outlawed -
Montgomery bus boycott
Protest in 1955–1956 by African Americans against racial segregation in the bus system of Montgomery, Alabama -
Woolworth's sit-in
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 "observed." -
Freedom Rides
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 -
Birmingham's Children March and boycott
May 2, May 3, and May 4, 1963; the purpose of the march was to walk downtown to talk to the mayor about segregation in their city. Fire hoses and dogs were used to prevent them from meeting the Mayor. -
March on Washington
1963 civil rights demonstration in Washington, D.C., in which protesters called for “jobs and freedom” -
Selma to Montgomery March
The 1965 Selma to Montgomery March was the climactic event of the Selma voting rights demonstrations. It provided some of the most recognized imagery of the civil rights movement and sparked several infamous crimes.
