Civil Rights

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964- 1954

    Civil Rights Act of 1964- 1954

    The civil rights act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race color religion sex or national origin.
  • Montgomery bus Boycolt 1955

    Montgomery bus Boycolt 1955

    The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil-rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated.
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965-1965

    Voting Rights Act of 1965-1965

    The Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote
  • Integration of Little Rock center 1957

    Integration of Little Rock center 1957

    The desegregation of center high school in Little Rock Arkansas gained national attention on September 3, 1957
  • First lunch counter sitin 1960

    First lunch counter sitin 1960

    American college students sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworth’s in Greensboro.
  • Freedom Rides 1961

    Freedom Rides 1961

    Freedom rides were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961
  • Birmingham campaign

    Birmingham campaign

    The Birmingham campaign movement was a movement organized in early 1963
  • March on Washington 1963

    March on Washington 1963

    The March on Washington for jobs and freedom, the March on Washington was held in Washington D.C. on Wednesday, August 28, 1963