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Montgomery Bus Boycott
On December 3rd 1950 in Montogomery Alambama Martin Luther King a leader of the Civil Rights Movement thought of an idea for boycotting buses until the court decided to segergate buses, also Rosa Parks was a leader too. This happened becasue of what happen to Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat for a white man, this method was a peaceful boycott, and the result of this was that the court segergated buses in Mongomery and other places. -
Pearshall Plan
In North Carolina in August 1954 Governenrn Luther H. Hodges continued to stall desegregation. The legislation proposed by the committee, which became the Pearsall Plan, amended the Compulsory School Attendance Law so that students might be excused from attending an integrated public school. The Plan also recommended that the state consider special applications requesting state to pay private school tuition grants to parents whose children were assigned to the integrated public schools. -
Brown vs. the Board of Education
On May 17, 1954 In Toeka Kansas a man named Oliver Brown wanted his daughter to have the best education, but that didn't go as well as you would have thought. So he took it to the Surperme Court and they finally said ok. So as a result the court desegregated the nation schools. The leaders of this were Oliver Brown and the Supreme Cout, and Thurgood Marshall. -
Greensboro Sit-In
On Feb. 1st in Greensboro in 1960 four African Americans wanted lunch, so they sat at a lunch counter for whites only. They stayed until the store closed. Then the next day more African Americans started to come in this became well know as the Greeensboro sit-in. This was a civil disobedience method, and the leaders of this were Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair, Jr. , and David Richmond they were called the Greensboro Four. The result of this was desegregation of lunch counters. -
Slema, Montogomery, Bloody Sunday
Ono March 7, 1965 in Slema Alabama 525 people to 600 people went out to protest. The protest went smoothly until the marchers approched Edmund Pettus Bridge this was blocked pff by state troppers. The shireff Jim Clark said to them go bome but they refused. Then choas broke out the african americans were beaten to death woth nightsticks. The televised it and this became known as Bloody Sunday. The march was led by Jhon Lewis and the result was that the marches shifted to the Civil Rights.
