Civil Rights Movement

By DylanS5
  • Montgomery bus boycott

    Montgomery bus boycott

    Rosa Parks started a bus boycott
  • Freedom riders oppose segregation

    Freedom riders oppose segregation

    Many people took buses to the south to protest
  • Medgar Evers murdered

    Medgar Evers murdered

    Head of Mississippi NAACP was shot outside his home
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington

    Over 200,000 people went to Washington to protest racial injustace
  • Bombing of Birmingham church

    Bombing of Birmingham church

    4 children died because someone planted a bomb in the church
  • 24th Amendment passed

    24th Amendment passed

    This law allowed blacks to vote
  • Civil Rights Act passed

    Civil Rights Act passed

    This made laws forbidding racial discrimination
  • Malcolm X assassinated

    Malcolm X assassinated

    He rejected intergration and nonviolence
  • Selma to Montgomery march

    Selma to Montgomery march

    54 mile march to support black voter registration
  • King was assassinated

    King was assassinated

    Killed by James Earl Ray