Civil Rights

By whitebr

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    Brown vs. Board of Education
    ' >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqYDSyV8qW8' >Brown vs. Board of Edcuation</a>U.S. Supreme Court declares school segregation unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka ruling.

  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks
    Rosa Parks refuses to move to the back of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus as required by city ordinance; boycott follows and bus segregation ordinance is declared unconstitutional.

  • The bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham

    The bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham
    Video The bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham results in the death of four black girls.

  • I Have a Dream

    I Have a Dream
    The man that changed the world.200,000 march in Washington and hear the Rev. Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech. On of the most influential and famous speaches of all time.

  • Blacks Get the Right to Vote

    Blacks Get the Right to Vote
    The Voting Rights Act of 1965 forbid the use of literacy tests and other voter tests as prerequisites for voting. It also authorized federal intervention to aid blacks in registering to vote in the South.

  • Dr. Martian Luther King Assassination

    Dr. Martian Luther King Assassination
    CBS NewsThe assassination of Rev. King in Memphis sets off a wave of rioting in 125 cities in 29 states.