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Two events(Emmett Till, an African American teenager from Chicago, was beaten and killed by two white men, and bus law that required blacks to give up their seats when white people wished to sit in their seats or in the same row) helped spark the civil rights movement by Martin Luther King Jr.
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The first major legislative accomplishment of the movement came with the passage of the 1957 civil rights act,
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The abstract commitment to desegregation of public schools stemming from the Brown decision was put to the test in Little Rock, Arkansas, at Central High School.
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President Dwight Eisenhower(1890-1969) signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1960, which dealt weakly with the issue of voting rights.
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Civil rights became the leading national domestic issue
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King and other civil rights leaders organized a March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom at the nation’s capital in Washington, D.C.
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Under Johnson's leadership, the seminal Civil Rights Act of 1964, which included provisions for public accommodations and fair employment, was enacted.
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The next year Congress passed the Voting Rights Act, which authorized the use of federal voter registrars to help African Americans register to vote.
