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a diverse group of people, whites, blacks, and Jews founded the NAACP. The group was a part of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Jackie Robinson, who is black, joins the Brooklyn Dodgers. It was a big part of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Rosa Parks was supposed to sit at the back of the bus. Instead, she broke the law and sat at the front of the bus.
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Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas was desegregated.
Governor Orval Faubus tried to prevent nine African American students from attending the school. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was the first federal Civil Rights Legislation.
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Brown v. Board of Education was a Supreme Court case. The case said that it was unconstitutional to segregate public schools.
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4 black boys sat down for lunch at Woolworth's lunch counter. They politely asked to be served but were denied.
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Freedom riders were people who rode buses into segregated areas. They did this to challenge the Supreme Court.
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Dr. King was thrown into jail for protesting the treatment of blacks. A court had ordered that King could not hold protests.
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The March on Washington was a protest with about 250,000 people. They were protesting the civil and economic rights of African Americans.
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Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex.
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The Voting Rights Act allowed African Americans to vote. They could not vote before the act.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was a popular Civil Rights activist. He is one of the most known Civil RIghts activists.
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The massacre was about 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S. Route 80. They only got as far as the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
