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Arrest of Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to obey the bus driver's order to give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled. By her refusing to give up her seat eventually resulted in a bus boycott by African Americans. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Martin Luther King, Jr. led the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama because he and other AfricanAmericans thought it was wrong for Rosa Parks to get arrested for not giving up her seat to a white person. It was a 13 month nonviolent protest that ended with the ruling that segregation on public buses was unconstitutional. -
Greensboro Sit-In
Four African American students went to sit down at the lunch counter at Woolworth's store in Greensboro, North Carolina. They ordered coffee but the staff refused to serve African American men at a white persons counter. The students stayed until the store closed. Other African Americans joined the sit-in the following days and boycotted stores with segregated lunch counters. Sales at these stores dropped, resulting in Woolworth's serving white and black people together at the lunch counter. -
Bloody Sunday, The First Selma to Montgomery March
Bloody Sunday and the 2 marches after that were attempts to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. On Bloody Sunday, 600 marchers were attacked with billy clubs and tear gas. They marched in order to get voting rights passed for blacks which resulted in passing the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which gave blacks the right to vote. -
Busing in Charlotte, NC
In Charlotte, North Carolina, Judge McMillian ordered the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district to use busing to speed integration. They wanted black and white people to ride together on the bus.
