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Racial segregation
Ending racial segregation in public schools, but some schools remained segregated. -
Pastors and leaders.
Sixty black pastors and civil rights leaders for some southern states, including Martin Luther King Jr. meet in Atlanta Georgia to coordinate nonviolent protests against racial discrimination and segregation. -
Voting rights
Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957 into law to help protect voter rights, and the law allows federal prosecution of those who suppress another’s right to vote. -
Students refuse to leave lunch cunter
4 college students refuse to leave a whites only lunch counter without being served, and that encouraged other lunch counters to allow blacks to sit at their lunch counters. -
Jobs and freedom protest
About 250,000 people join together to protest the March on Washington for jobs and freedom. This is the day that martin Luther King Jr. made his "I Have a Dream" speech. -
Birmingham bombed
At a church in Birmingham Alabama on 16th street a bomb went off and 4 young innocent girls were killed and many others were injured. -
Civil rights
President Johnson signed the civil rights act of 1964. -
Marching
Local police start attacking and blocking black protesters for voting suppression. They had to fight in quart for their right to march and they won the fight. Martin Luther King and other civil rights lead two or more marches and finally reach Montgomery on March 25th. -
Signing voting rights
President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to prevent the use of literacy tests as a voting requirement. It also allowed federal examiners to review voter qualifications and federal observers to monitor polling places. -
Civil Rights Act
President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968 providing equal housing opportunity regardless of race, religion or national origin.