civil rights

  • first womens rights convention

    first womens rights convention

    seneca falls, new york was where the first convention was held.
  • NAWSA

    NAWSA

    The national woman's suffrage association
  • WTUL

    WTUL

    The national women's trade union league.
  • Department of Labor

    Department of Labor

    The womens bureau of the department of labor is formed to collect information about women in the workforce
  • Brown vs. board of education

    Brown vs. board of education

    children was confused on why they couldn't go to the school right by their house and had to go to the run down school far away from their home. and their parents went and talked to the schools and the court to make that stop.
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    On the afternoon of December 1st 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus for a white man knowing what was going to happen, she did it anyways.
  • desegregation at little rock

    desegregation at little rock

    on this day nine black students attended an all white school.
  • Sit-in campaign

    Sit-in campaign

    students sat at lunch counters until they were acknowledged and served food.
  • Freedom rides

    Freedom rides

    The congress on racial equality placed black and white volunteers next to each other on a buses and other forms of transportation.
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington

    Both white and black people gathered together to hear Martin Luther King jr. "I have a dream" speech.