Civil Rights Movement

By clary_lia

  • First Sit-In

    Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair, Jr., David Richmond, and Franklin McCain. The students sat at a Whites Onl counter and when they were refused servuce they refused to move.The students stayed at the counter until it closed. They then stated that they would sit there daily until they got the same service as white customers.

  • SNCC

    Ella Baker, students established the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Later SNCC becomes a major civil rights group.

  • Freedom Riders Fight Bus Segredation

    Teams of African American and white volunteers boarded several southbound interstate buses. Buses were met by angry white mobs in Anniston, Birmingham, and Montgomery, Alabama. The mobs slit bus tires and threw rocks at the windows. In Anniston, someone threw a firebomb into one bus. Fortunately, no one was killed. The violence made national news, shocking many Americans and drawing the federal government’s attention to the plight of African Americans in the South.

  • March on Washington

    More than 250,000 demonstrators, African American and white, gathered near the Lincoln Memorial. They heard speeches and sang songs. Dr. King then delivered his speech which became known as his "I Have A Dream" speech.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law, restricting states from denying people the right to vote baised on race. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most comprehensive civil rights law Congress had ever enacted. The law made segregation illegal in most places of public accommodation, and it gave citizens of all races and nationalities equal access to public facilities. The law gave the U.S. attorney general more power to bring lawsuits to force school desegregation and required.

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    The Voting Rights Act of 1965 authorized the U.S. attorney general to send federal examiners to register qualified voters, bypassing local officials who often refused to register African Americans. The law also suspended discriminatory devices, such as literacy tests, in counties where less than half of all adults had been registered to vote.