Challenging Segregation and New Civil Right Issues

By hannah111891

  • CORE Creates a SIt-In

    CORE created a sit-in in attempt to desegregate the Jack Spratt Coffee House in Chicago

  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference was Founded

    Martin Luther King Jr. and many other African Americans founded this conference which later became a significant civil rights organization

  • 1960 Court Case

    This court case expanded the ban on bus segregation now including bus stations and restaurants serving interstate travelers

  • Freedom Rides was Organized

    CORE and SNCC organized freedom rides to test southern compliance with this ruling

  • MLK Joins Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth

    In April of 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. joined Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth in Birmingham Alabama for a Civil Rights campaign

  • Martin Luther King Jr. Wins Noble Peace Price