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Arrest of Rosa Parks
On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, a 42-year-old woman sat down on a bus on her way home. A white man told her to move from her seat and for her to go to the back and she was tired didn't move from her spot and she got arrested for not listening and moivng to the back -
Pearsall Plan
Greensboro became the first city in the south to say that it would abide by the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education ruling which declared segregation in the Unites States public schools. -
Greensboro sit-in
The Greensboro sit in was in Greenboro North Carolina. The methods were civil disobedience and the leaders were mostly college students and watresses. -
Freedom Riders
The first Freedom Ride took place on May 4, 1961 when seven blacks and six whites left Washington, D.C., on two public buses to the South. They tried to test the Supreme Court's ruling Boynton v. Virginia, which made segregation in busses and rail stations unconstitutional. -
the busing in charlotte
In 1969, a federal judge ordered the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district to use busing to speed integration. The busing in charlotte made more than 2600 children end up with long bus rides that were often more than an our. It took place in Mecklenburg county.
