1960s public protests

  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa parks refused to sit in the back of the bus
  • Sit-ins and the New South, Florida

    They Protested about testing bus lines and lunch counters for violations of civil rights laws, sit-ins, freedom rides, and other nonviolent protests organized to fight segregation in Tallahassee.
  • Children of McComb

    students protested because fifteen-year-old Brenda Travis, a McComb student, was sent to reform school after she was arrested for requesting service at a Greyhound Bus lunch counter.
  • Stay Out For Freedom; Boycott Report

    The NAACP presented the Boston School Committee with a 14-Point Proposal to end de facto segregation in the public schools. The contentious and failed negotiations precipitated a series of nonviolent, direct action demonstrations in Boston, not the least of which was the June 18, 1963 Stay Out for Freedom Day.
  • March on Washington; George Geesey Introduction

    The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom featured an estimated 250,000 peaceful demonstrators walking from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial
  • Martin Luther King Jr.'s Speech

    Martin Luther King Jr. led a march from Selma to Montgomery Alabama. It was peaceful and changed history forever.
  • Start of Vietnamese Protests

    Vietnam had 2 torpedo boats attack the U.S. destroyers and President Lyndon B. Johnson attacked them right back. This didn't settle well for Americans and they wanted to stop this.
  • New England Scene; St. Augustine

    Marching to the Old Slave Market in the center of St. Augustine, protesters were attacked by white agitators who threw bricks and concrete from structures they had destroyed in the park at the marchers
  • Anti-War Protests

    Protesters gather in front of the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue in 1966 to protest the Vietnam War.
  • 1968 East L.A. Student Walkout

    As many as 22,000 mostly Mexican American students walked out of their classrooms at seven Los Angeles schools, garnering national attention