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Brown Vs. Board of Education
The story of Brown v. Board of Education, which ended legal segregation in public schools, is one of hope and courage. When the people agreed to be plaintiffs in the case, they never knew they would change history. The people who make up this story were ordinary people -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating, took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, and is regarded as the first large-scale demonstration against segregation in the U.S. -
Sit in, North Carolina
Four African-American students of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University sat at a white-only lunch counter inside a Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth’s store. -
Albany Movement
It was the first mass movement in the modern civil rights era to have as its goal the desegregation of an entire community, and it resulted in the jailing of more than 1,000 African Americans in Albany and surrounding rural counties. -
Birmingham Campaign
The Birmingham campaign was a movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama. Led by Martin Luther King, Jr. The so what factor would be that the Christians wanted to bring attention so they could have equal rights. -
Medgar Evers Assassination
In the driveway outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi, African American civil rights leader Medgar Evers is shot to death by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. -
March of Washington
August 28, 1963, an estimated quarter of a million people about a quarter of whom were white marched from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial, in what turned out to be both a protest and a communal celebration. The so what factor would be that every color came together for Jobs and freedom. -
I have a dream speech
The I have a dream speech that Martin Luther King Jr. made was for people to recongize that everyone no matter what race or color they were still people and human.The so what factor would be that Martin stood up for what he believed in and stood up for what colored people wanted but were to scared to stand up and show it. -
Martin Luther King Jr assassination
At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was hit by a sniper's bullet. King had been standing on the balcony in front of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, when, without warning, he was shot. The so what factor would be that King stood up for the colored and for equal rights.
