Civil Rights- Chap 31

By jRITT
  • Brown vs. USA

    Brown vs. USA

    Segregation in school is unconstitutional
  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks

    Refuses to give up her seat, sparking protests like bus protests
  • Crisis in Little Rock

    Crisis in Little Rock

    School became desegregated, and African Americans needed military escort to enter the school
  • Sit-In

    Sit-In

    Four black college students in Greensboro, North Carolina sat down at the whites-only lunch table
  • Filling the Jails in Birmingham

    Filling the Jails in Birmingham

    The city of Birmingham, Alabama defied the new desegregation laws
  • Marches on Washington

    Marches on Washington

    250,000 people marched on Washington for racial equality
  • Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing

    Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing

    Four African-American girls were killed in the bombing of the desegregated Sixteenth Street Baptist Church by pro segregation white people.
  • Civil rights act of 1964

    Civil rights act of 1964

    Segregation deemed illegal along with discrimination
  • Voting Rights Act

    Voting Rights Act

    African-Americans given right to vote
  • Dr. King's Assassination

    Dr. King's Assassination

    On April 4th, 1968 Dr. King was shot to death