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Supreme court ruled that the segregation of schools was unconstitutional and inherently unequal.
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In December 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat at the front of the bus when she was told to move to the back which was designated for African-Americans. She was arrested and she was credited for sparking the Civil Right Movement.
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9 African-American students start attending an all white school. The students have to be escorted by military personnel because of harassment.
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Civil Rights activists took buses into segregated areas of the south and were often beaten by mobs and/or arrested. Pictured here are John Lewis (left) and James Zwerg (right).
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James Meredith wins a court case and is allowed admission to the University of Mississippi. Robert Kennedy issues him military personnel to attend. Students attacked Meredith and the U.S. Marshalls with gunfire and rocks. Many of the Marshalls suffered gunshot wounds.
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200 to 300 thousand marchers descended on the Lincold Memorial to support the Kennedy Administration's Civil Rights bill. This was also the site of the famous, "I Have A Dream" speech, by Martin Luther King Jr.
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President Lyndon Johnson pushes a bill through congress that banned discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender and nationality.
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Due to voter discrimination against African-American, 600 peaceful demonstrators begin a 54 mile march from Selma to Montgomery. Police attacked the marches with whips, clubs and tear gas as the national media recorded the events.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
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United States History
Grades 9-12 *The student will understand the changes in legal definitions of individual rights in the 1960s and 1970s and the social movements that prompted them.
