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the Supreme Court rules unanimously against school segregation
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a Montgomery Alabama bus to a white person
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followowing Rosa Park, the Montgomery bus Boycott was when African Americans refused to use the Mongtgomery buses to protest segregated seats
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After the protest walk from selma to montgomery, the voting rights act is passed allowing African Americans to vote without having any disturbances
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protest by African American students at a segregated Woolworth's lunch in Greensboro, started the sit-in movement that soon spread to college towns throughout,
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civil rights workers bot African Amercian and white rode buses across country testing or proving the new desegregation law
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in Washington D.C. martin luther king jr gives his 'I Have a Dream' speech at the largest civil right demonstration ever.
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President johnson signs the civil rights act, which gives thefederal government power to prosectue discrimination
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Martin Luther King jr. is the youngest man to be awarded with the nobel peace prize
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at age 39, Marting Luther King jr. is assasinated standing on the balcony of his hotel room.
