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it banned schools -
Rosa park refused to give up her seat -
14 year boy that was killed -
Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, ignited the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a pivotal 381-day protest led by Martin Luther King Jr. that crippled the city's buses.
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The Little Rock Nine were nine African American students who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957, a pivotal Civil Rights event following the Brown v. Board of Education ruling. -
Nine African American students who integrated Little Rock Central High School
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The Greensboro Woolworth's sit-in, starting February 1, 1960, was a pivotal nonviolent protest against segregation where four Black college students -
a pivotal nonviolent protest against segregation where four Black college students sat at a "whites-only" lunch counter -
a massive peaceful protest that brought over 250,000 people to Washington, D.C., to demand civil and economic rights for African Americans -
nonviolent protests where integrated groups of civil rights activists rode buses through the American South to challenge segregated public transportation -
prohibits both Congress and the states from requiring the payment of a poll tax or any other tax to vote in federal elections. -
to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans.
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A bombing of a Birmingham church by the KKK claims the lives of four African-American girls. -
The Letter from Birmingham Jail was written by Martin Luther King Jr. in response to criticism from white religious leaders while imprisoned for nonviolent protests -
Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, ending segregation in public places, ensuring equal employment opportunities. -
the brutal attack on peaceful civil rights marchers by state troopers and local police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, as they began their 54-mile march to the state capital, Montgomery, for voting rights -
was a landmark federal law that outlawed discriminatory voting practices like literacy tests and poll taxes. -
a landmark Supreme Court case that declared state laws banning interracial marriage unconstitutional. -
MLK wrote this letter while imprisoned for anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, Alabama, responding to white clergymen who called his actions "unwise and untimely"
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The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was a terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham
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nonviolent protests in 1961 where integrated groups of civil rights activists rode buses through the American South to challenge segregated public transportation