Civil Rights Project

By ejtate
  • Brown vs Board of Education

    Brown vs Board of Education

    Segregation in schools were stopped. Most people in georgia didn't like it being a state of segragationist
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    People(minority) were being arrested for not moving while on a bus for the majority. It was to stop people from being moved and arrested rosa parks was one arrested and Martin King when to react it lasted 381 days the boycott nearly choked the bus of money
  • Formation of SCLC

    Formation of SCLC

    It was to redeem America with non-violent protest Martin Luther King was the preident of the group
  • Formation of SNCC and the integration of the Woolworth’s lunch counter

    Formation of SNCC and the integration of the Woolworth’s lunch counter

    Stokely Carmichael, Charles F., Charles Jones were some of the leaders
  • Admission of Charlayne Hunter & Hamilton Holmes into the University of Georgia

    Admission of Charlayne Hunter & Hamilton Holmes into the University of Georgia

    Video- http://dbsmaint.galib.uga.edu/wsbnews/clips/51554.html
    The minority wanted to join or go in place that they werent allowed no one wanted them too but in the end the place now have all races
  • Freedom Riders

    Freedom Riders

    Site for info- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/
    African American tried to use white only things and they were arrested or ran away John Lewis,C. T. Vivian were some of the many people that partisipated
  • Albany Movement

    Albany Movement

    Many protesters when to allow intergration and won
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington

    Martin King Jr. wanted jobs for the minority and presented the I have a dream speech they got jobs for the minority
  • Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

    He wanted Blacks to live in unity with whites