Civil rights

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education

    Supreme Court case desecrated public schools everywhere because racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Rosa park actions began the organized Montgomery Bus Boycott and Martian Luther king Jr became the leader. The boycott lasted 13-month. The protest ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.
  • Little Rock Nine

    Little Rock Nine

    Integration of the schools were treated in Arkansas. President Eisenhower sent in army troops to make sure the Nine black student who joined an integrate central high school were allowed in the school.
  • First lunch counter sit-in

    First lunch counter sit-in

    Four African-American students that went to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University had a sit-in at a white-only lunch counter inside a Greensboro.
  • Freedom Rides

    Freedom Rides

    Blacks and whites who rode buses together through the American South to protest against segregation. They wanted to change state laws that enforced segregation in transportation
  • Birmingham campaign

    Birmingham campaign

    Hundred people would march together to protest against segregation. There different kind of protests there were sit-ins, marches, and boycotts.
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington

    More than 200,000 thousand people from around the U.S. came to Washington, D.C. because they wanted an end to segregation, fair wages and economic justice, voting rights, education. Martin Luther king Jr gave the famous “i have a dream” speech.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964

    An act that forbids discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. An act were citizens would have to be treated equally and fairly by the law.
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Voting Rights Act of 1965

    The law was signed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. The law was made to put an end to discriminatory laws relating to a person's right to vote on the federal level.