Civil rights movement

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  • Brown vs Board Education (1954)

    Brown vs Board Education (1954)

    Brown vs board education out lawed segregation in public school.
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    NAACP organized for Rosa parks to refuse to give up her seat, this lead to her arrest, which started the bus boycott.
  • Little Rock Nine

    Little Rock Nine

    Integration of the schools was tested Arkansas. Army troops were sent to make sure the black students were allowed into the school.
  • First lunch counter sit-in

    First lunch counter sit-in

    The lunch-counter sit in began the movement, it employed the tactic of nonviolent direct action and was a pivotal event during the civil rights movement.
  • Freedom Rides

    Freedom Rides

    Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States.
  • Birmingham campaign

    Birmingham campaign

    The Birmingham campaign was a movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington

    The March on Washington was held in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963. The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. This is where Martin Luther King gave his famous speech, “ I Have A Dream”
  • Civil Rights Act

    Civil Rights Act

    The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
  • Voting Rights Act

    Voting Rights Act

    It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.