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Civil Right Era

By ChocolateMOOSE
  • Period: to

    1950s & 1960s

  • Brown vs Board of Education

    Where the Supreme court decided that schools could not be segregated.

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    People in montgomery refused to ride the buses in the town because rosa parks was arested

  • Greensboro Sit-ins

    Black students sat in a whites only bar. Huge movement started.

  • Freedom Riders

    Whites and Blacks got on buses and rode around the deep south in buses to test the segregation laws.

  • March on Washington

    thousands of people march on washington to proterst segregation. Right after MLK delivers I Have A Dream speech.

  • Birmingham church bombing

    White man threw a bomb inside a church. 4 black girls where killed.

  • Civil Rights act of 1964

    This law made segregation illegal.

  • Selma Protests

    Protest in selma so that blacks could vote.

  • Black Power

    A belief started by Malcom X that blacks should have their own separete comunity.

  • Assasination of M.L.K.

    Marthin Luther King shot and killed in his apartment.