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Was a case filed by the NAACP against the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. Said that segregated schools were not equal, violating the constitution.
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Many followers of the Civil Rights Movement took Rosa Parks' event as an opportunity to challenge segregation on Montgomery buses, and began a year long boycott.
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The SCLC was a national church based civil rights group founded by MLK and primarily made up of members of black churches throughout the south and began to increase in
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Black students refused to leave a lunch counter, attracted hundreds of to protest the unfair treatment of Blacks in public places.
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A series of bus rides from DC to the South with integrated passengers sitting together, used to see if Jim Crow on interstate travel was gone.
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The March on Washington was an integrated march in DC whose goal was to pressure Congress to pass sweeping civil rights legislation.
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Was an Act that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Started under JFK and finally passed after his assassination under LBJ.
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The Voting Rights Act was a federal law that said that the vote had to be open to everyone, and that the federal government would enforce everyone's right to vote.
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King led a march on to the Pettus bridge, three thousand marchers left Selma for Montgomery on March 21. Nearly 25,000 people joined the Selma marchers on at the city limits of Montgomery.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4 when he went outside on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis.
