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Civil Rights Movement

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    Civil Rights Movement

  • Bus Boycott

    Bus Boycott
    The Montgomery Bus Boycott officially started. It was the first protest led by Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Little Rock Nine

    Little Rock Nine
    Nine black students are stopped from entering a high school. The national guard and federal troops were sent to help.

  • Freedom Rides

    Freedom Rides
    Black and White men and women ride buses into the south to challenge the Jim Crow Laws

  • Letter from Birmingham

    Letter from Birmingham
    MLK was arrested in Birmingham. There is where he wrote his famous ''Letter from Birmingham Jail''

  • I Have a Dream

    I Have a Dream
    MLK makes his Famous ''I Have a Dream'' speech in Washington DC after the March on Washington

  • Act of 1964

    Act of 1964
    President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which prohibits dicrimination base on race

  • X

    X
    Malcolm X was assassinated. People think the person that killed him waas part of the Black Muslim Faith because he abandoned Islam

  • Bloody Sunday

    Bloody Sunday
    People are marching to Montgomery and they were stopped in Selma. The march was stopped by state troopers and 50 people were hospitalized

  • The Black Panther Party

    The Black Panther Party
    Huey Newton and Bobby Seale started the party to protect minorities

  • MLK

    MLK
    Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis.