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The Jim Crow Laws were applied in 1877 which was intented to separate black and white people and give more advantages to white people -
The civil rights movement start in 1954 which was a movement for black people to have more civil rights -
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a public bus to a white passenger. She were arrested for this. -
Sit-in is a form of protest which is non-violent. Protesters sat down in a place where they know they would not be served, such as segregated luch counter, and refused to leave. It started in the 60s -
Ruby Bridges was escorted to her first day at the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans by four armed federal marshals. They were met with angry mobs shouting their disapproval, and, throughout the day, parents marched in to remove their children from the school as a protest to desegregation. -
A group called the Congress of Racial Equality began sponsoring Freedom Riders through the south. African Americans and whites traveled together to make sure buses and station were integrated in1961 -
250 000 people gathered in Washington D.C. to protest and King delivered a powerful speech known for the phrase "I have a Dream" in 1963. -
Malcolm X, an Muslim minister and human Civil rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement, was assassinated in Manhattan, New York in 1965. He was the leader of the group which was using violence to win racial justice. -
The civil rights movement end by the civil rights act in 1968 and others federal laws like the voting rights act in 1965 or the civil rights act of 1964 -
Martin Luther King, the major figure of the civil rights movement was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968.