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Brown V. Board of Education was consolidation of 5 cases into one. The Supreme Court effectively ending racial segregation in public schools. However many schools remained segregated. -
Rosa Parks had been a black woman that refused to give up her site to a white e man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. Rosa Parks had prompted the Montgomery bus boycott. -
There were 60 black pastors and cilvil right leaders from several southern states. Martin Luther King Jr. Had also joined them. They all had ment in Atlanta Georgia to coordinate nonviolent protests against racial discrimination and segregation. -
More than 1,000 Black school children march through Birmingham, Alabama in a demonstration against segregation. There goal was the non-violent demonstration, which became known as the "Children's Crusade," it had made the city leadrers mad. The policed at hosed the kids down and had been arresting the kids. -
Over 250,000 people had taken apart in the March on Washington for jobs and Freedom. Martin Luther King had given his speech I Have Dream.Memorial, stating, "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident: -
In the Selma to Montgomery March, around 600 civil rights marchers walked too Selma, Alabama to Montgomery-the state's capital-in protest of Black voter suppression. The police had blocked off people and where brutally attacking them. After successfully fighting the court for their right to march, Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders had lead two more marches and finally reach Montgomery on March 25. -
President Johnson had signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to prevent the use of literacy tests as a voting requirement. It had allowed federal examiners to review voter qualifications. -
Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated on the balcony of his hotel room in Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray had been convicted of the murder in 1969. -
President Johnson had signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968, also known as the Fair Housing Act, it had provided equal housing opportunity regardless of race, religion or national origin.