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Rosa Parks
in 1955, Rosa Parks rejected a bus driver's order to leave a row of four seats in the "colored" section once the white section had filled up and move to the back of the bus. Her defiance sparked a successful boycott of buses in Montgomery a few days later. She was considered a leader back then and still is to this day. -
Birmingham campaign
The Birmingham campaign, which is also known as the Birmingham movement or Birmingham confrontation, was an movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama. -
March in Washington for jobs and freedom
The March for Washington was the biggest gathering for civil rights at the time. It was estimated that 250,000 people attended the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. Many people arrived in Washington, D.C. by planes, trains, cars, and buses from all over the country. -
Civil rights act of 1964
in 1964, Congress passed Public Law. The Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. This civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing. -
The voting rights act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act is a landmark federal law enacted in 1965 to remove race based restrictions on voting. It is the country's most important voting rights law, with a history that dates to the Civil War.