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Brown vs. Board of Education
Linda Brown had to walk a long way to school when there was a white school really close. She opposed segregation of schools. NAACP helps with the opposition and eventually segregated schools are made illegal. -
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Busses were segregated and this was a big problem. Rosa Parks sits in the whites only section and refuses to move. Rosa is quikly arrested. Martin Luther King Jr. then breaks Rosa out of jail. This starts the Mountgomery Bus Boycott. Blacks refused to ride busses and bus companies went bankrupt. Busses were then forced to give blacks equal rights. -
Crisis at central high school and the little rock nine
Nine blacks were accepted into central high school. A mob of whites surrounded the school to protest against the blacks. Hundreds of troops were sent in to stop the mobs at the school. Eventually the blacks were accepted into the school system. -
Greensboro Sit-ins
Four blacks when into Woolworth store and bought some stuff from the department store portion but were refused service at the lunch counters. The four blacks got other people to sit at the lunch counters to take up space and got blacks to ask to ask but the counters continued tp refuse service. The blacks and other people that took up space would read newspapers and other things to take up time. The Woolsworth store eventually gave in and allowed blacks to get service from the lunch counters. -
Civil Rights Act passed
President Lyndon B. Johnson got elected oresident and wanted to do more for civil rights than the last hundred sessions combined. He talked about a civil rights act. Southerners argued with the thought of ending segregation. Eventually the house had approved the bill with a vote and the bill then moved to congress. The bill finally got accepted by vote and ended segregation in public places and ended discrimination of race, color, religion, and gender. -
Voting rights act
Before 1955 blacks couldn't vote. Freedom summer was the protesting of this. A peacfull march from Selma was attacked and caused commotion across the nation. The nation decided it was unfair to not give blacks voting rights. -
Martin Luther King assasinated
Martin Luther King was shot by James Earl Ray on hi balcony. Martin Luther Kingdied a hour later in a hospial. Thoesands of people were affected by Martin Luther King's death.
