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-Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus.
Rosa Parks got arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a public bus. Which started the Montgomery bus boycott -
Montgomery bus boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign that started in 1955. -
Governor Farbus of Arkansas brings in National Guard to prevent black students from going into a white school.
After the intervention of President Eisenhower, is considered to be one of the most important events in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. -
Sit in at Woolworth's lunch counter
Four African American college students sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworth’s in Greensboro, North Carolina, and politely asked for service. -
Freedom riders bus burned
The Freedom Riders set out for the Deep South to defy Jim Crow laws and call for change. They were met by hatred and violence they burned their bus and local police often refused to intervene. But the Riders' efforts transformed the civil rights movement. -
The Other America written by Michael Harrington
Published in 1962 by Macmillan. A widely read review, "Our Invisible Poor" -
Peaceful demonstrators ruthlessly attacked in Birmingham, Alabama- MLK arrested
For participating in a demonstration to end segregated facilities. -
MLK writes Letter from a Birmingham jail
Oh his eleventh day he wrote this letter. -
March on Washington
Over 250,000 people assembled in Washington to listen to Martin Luther King Jr.and march for black rights. -
John F. Kennedy assasinated
John F. Kennedy was fatally shot while traveling. -
Lyndon B. Johnson becomes President
Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often referred to as LBJ, served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969 after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States from 1961 to 1963. -
24th amendment passed
The Twenty-fourth Amendment (Amendment XXIV) prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. -
Civil Rights bill passed
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88-352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) was a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women, and ended racial segregation in the United States. -
Voting rights act 1965
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88-352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) was a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women, and ended racial segregation in the United States. -
Malcom X dies
Malcom X is killed by a gun. -
Watt Riots
The term Watts Riots of 1965 refers to a large-scale riot which lasted 6 days in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, in August 1965. By the time the riot subsided, 34 people had been killed, 1,032 injured, and 3,438 arrested. It would stand as the most severe riot in Los Angeles history until the Los Angeles riots of 1992. The riot is viewed by some as a reaction to the record of police brutality by the LAPD and other racial injustices suffered by black Americans in Los Angeles -
-"I have a dream" speech given by Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King gave his big speech in Washington with 250,000 people in attendence. -
Martin Luther King Jr. assasinated
At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, a shot rang out. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who had been standing on the balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN, now lay sprawled on the balcony's floor. -
Forced busing begins
Desegregation busing in the United States (also known as forced busing or simply busing) is the practice of assigning and transporting students to schools in such a manner as to redress prior racial segregation of schools, or to overcome the effects of residential segregation on local school demographics.