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Forced busing begins
Is the practice of assigning and transporting students to schools in such a manner as to redress prior racial segregation of schools, or to overcome the effects of residential segregation on local school demographics. -
Rosa parks arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus
one passenger was asked to give up her seat during a busy Friday evening so that a white passenger could sit down. Refusing to give up her seat. -
Montgomery bus boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign that started in 1955. -
Governor Farbus of Arkansas brings in National Guard to prevent black students from going into a white school.
After the intervention of President Eisenhower, is considered to be one of the most important events in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. On their first day of school, troops from the Arkansas National Guard would not let them enter the school and they were followed by mobs making threats to lynch. -
Sit in at Woolworth's lunch counter
Four African American college students sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworth’s in Greensboro, North Carolina, and politely asked for service. Their request was refused. When asked to leave, they remained in their seats. Their passive resistance and peaceful sit-down demand helped ignite a youth-led movement to challenge racial inequality throughout the South -
Freedom riders bus burned
the Freedom Riders set out for the Deep South to defy Jim Crow laws and call for change. They were met by hatred and violence. -
Peaceful demonstrators ruthlessly attacked in Birmingham, Alabama- MLK arrested.
Martin Luther King, Jr. is arrested in Birmingham, Alabama for participating in a demonstration to end segregated facilities. -
MLF writes letter from a Birmingham jail
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John F. Kennedy assasinated
Kennedy was fatally shot while traveling with his wife Jacqueline, Texas governor John Connally, and the latter's wife, -
"I have a dream" speech given by Martin Luther King
MLK gave his big speech in Washington with 250,000 people in attendence. -
Peaceful demonstrators ruthlessly attacked in Birmingham, Alabama- MLK arrested.
During his 11 day stay in jail he wrote this Letter. -
Lyndon B. Johnson becomes President
He became president right after John F Kennedy was assasinated. -
March on Washington
Over 250,000 people assembled in Washington to listen to Martin Luther King Jr.and march for black rights. -
24th amendment passed
prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. The amendment was proposed by Congress. -
Votin rights act
government reform seemed to be working as approximately 250,000 African Americans were newly registered voters. During the next three years, more than 700,000 blacks would exert political influence by registering to vote -
Malcom x dies
Malcolm X prepared to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom, a disturbance broke out in the 400-person audience a man yelled, "Nigger! Get your hand outta my pocket!" As Malcolm X and his bodyguards moved to quiet the disturbance, A man rushed forward and shot him in the chest with a sawed-off shotgun. Two other men charged the stage and fired handguns, hitting Malcolm X 16 times. -
Watts riots
A large-scale riot which lasted 5 days in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, -
Martin Luther King Jr. assasinated
While standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated. -
forced busing begins
Desegregation busing in the United States (also known as forced busing or simply busing) is the practice of assigning and transporting students to schools in such a manner as to redress prior racial segregation of schools, or to overcome the effects of residential segregation on local school demographics.