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Brown vs. Board of Education
A case that ended the separate but equal schools and segregation laws where Linda Brown's parents sued the Topeka Board of Education when their daughter could not attend the school there. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
African Americans or anyone who opposed segregation stopped riding the public bus to project a message against segregation (active protesting) and until the buses change their system to "first come, first serve". This started after Rosa Parks was arrested for an unjust act upon the bus in which she refuses to give up her seat on a bus. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
MLK led the bus boycott and believed in non-violent protests. This publicized him and made him the leader he was. He also gained the national Civil Rights leader role from this. -
Crisis in Little Rock
The Governor of Arkansas disobeys the Supreme Court's desegregation law and ordered the Arkansas police and the Arkansas National Guard to stop African American students from entering the school. President Eisenhower orders the army to escort the African American students into the school as a result. -
The Children's Marches
After MLK was released from jail, many of the former movement participators gave up not to risk arrest. To make up for the loss, many of the youth hit the streets and joined the march (this ended on May 5 the same year). -
March on Washington
A quarter of a million people gathered near the Lincoln memorial to hear many different high profile speakers, the last one being MLK with his "I have a Dream" speech. -
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing
When Birmingham achieved racial desegregation, a church (a former headquarter of MLK) was bombed, killing four african american girls. This showed that racial hatred still lingered. -
Civil RIghts act of 1964
After President Kennedy was assassinated, Vice LBJ became the new president passing the strongest Civil Rights law in history. It banned any sort of segregation. -
Voting Rights act of 1965
n 1965, President LBJ passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 giving african americans the right to vote. -
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Assasination
King's assassination made many of his supporters lose faith and caused the exact opposite of this goal: they started preaching hostility, not peace, among races .
