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Rosa Parks Bus incident
Rosa parks is arrested for a conflict that took place on public transporttion -
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The Inspiration towards other discriminted groups
discriminated groups were inspired by the civil rights movement and borrowed its tactics. Over the 1960's and 1970's, the LGBTQ, women, Native Americans, and people with disabilities pushed for their equality in American society. -
Freedom riders
the freedom riders boarded busses in attempt to dismiss segregated seating accommodations -
Racial discrimination march
television viewers saw hundred of thousands of African-Americans and whites march on Washington, DC to end racial discrimination. It was there that Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. -
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Acts passed
the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which outlawed racial discrimination in public accommodations and schools and removed obstacles to voting was passes after the assasination of JFK -
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neigborhood riots
After 1966, the civil rights movement began to fracture between those who favored nonviolent means to achieve integration and younger, more radical leaders who wanted to fight for "black power." This split alienated some white allies, and this was accelerated by a wave of rioting in black neighborhoods in northern cities throughout 1965 and 1967.