1950s to 1960s

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    Civil Rights TimeLine from 1950 to 1960

    This is the Watsons Go To Birmingham project by David S.
  • Segregation was rulled illegal in U.s

    This was rulled illegal but was di obeyed like speeding but most states followed the rule.
  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up a seat on a Montgomery Bus

    Rosa Parks sat down on a segregated bus in Mongomery when a white man asked Rosa to get out of that seat. She refused and that triggered a boycott that lasted one year and 8 days.
  • Woolworths Lucnch Counter Sit-In in Greensboro, NC

    On February 1, 1960,at 4:30pm four students from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University sat down at the lunch counter inside the Woolworth store at 132 South Elm Street in Greensboro, North Carolina.[2] The men, later known as the A&T Four or the Greensboro Four, went to Woolworth's Store, bought toothpaste and other products from a desegregated counter at the store with no problems, and then were refused service from the segregated lunch counter, at the same store
  • Freedom Riders challenge segregated Interstate Buses

    Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961.
  • The Assasination of Medgar Evers

    Medar Evers was a Civil Rights activist that overran segregation at the University of Missisipi.
  • MLK's I Have a Dream Speech

    The MLK I Have A Dream speech made a giant spark in the civil rights movement and it made a revolution, making MLK a everyday name.
  • 16th Street Church Birmingham Bombing

    The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was in Birmingham, Alabama and it was comitted by the Klu Klux Klan
  • JFK Assasination

    JFK was a very famous name not only in US history, but the best of Civil Rights history. When MLK was in jail, JFK set him free and it was a supprising event because whites and blacks were segregated back then.