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Rosa Parks
On this date, Rosa Parks was arrested on a bus for refusing to give her seat up to a white man on a public bus. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott started in December of 1955, when Rosa Parks, a black woman, refused to give up her seat to a white man on a public bus. The boycott started after she was arrested. None of the black people took the bus in Montgomery, Alabama until December 20th, 1956 when the segregation law was ruled unconstitutional. -
Little Rock Nine
Governer Orval Faubus ordered the National Guard to go to Central High School to keep the blacks from entering the school, because "the streets would run with blood" if they did, because there was word of white sepremisists in the area. -
Sit in at Woolworth's Lunch Counter
In Greensboro, North Carolina, four black college students sat down in a restaurant and politely asked for service, but were refused service, so they remained sitting in the four chairs. -
Freedom Riders Bus Burned
The Freedom Riders were on a trip to Alabama, and their bus was ambushed and burned to the ground. -
"The Other America" by Michael Harrington
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This book was written by Michael Harrington. It was a book about a very influential study on poverty. -
MLK arrested in Birmingham, Alabama
Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham, AL for a peaceful protest march for civil rights, that the protestors didn't have a permit for. -
MLK's letter from Birmingham Jail
When Martin Luther King Jr was in Birmingham Jail, he got a hold of a news article calling him a "trouble maker", and he responded on the sides of the newspaper and on toilet paper, and it was later published. -
March on Washington
There were a quarter of a million people at this march- a quarter of them were white-. The peaceful march went from the Washington Memorial to the Lincoln Memorial, where there was music, and many speeches. One of the speeches included Martin Luther King Jr's, "I Have a Dream" speech. -
"I Have a Dream" speech by MLK
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the march on Washington. This speech was all about civil rights, and allowing black people and white people to come together as one to work together in the world. -
John F. Kennedy assassinated
During a motorcade through Dalas, Texas. He was headed to a lunch when he was assasinated. There is a lot of debate on who actually assasinated him. -
Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president
After Kennedy's assasination, Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as president on board Air Force One. -
24th Amendment passed
The 24th Amendment was to remove poll taxes.
It was passed in congress on August 27, 1962, and was ratified January 23, 1964 -
Civil Rights bill passed
Congress passed the civil rights bill, giving African Americans all the same rights as white people. -
Malcom X dies
Malcom X was an African American Muslim minister, and also a human rights activist. -
Voting Rights Act
This act outlawed descriminatory voting practices. -
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Watts Riots
This riot started in Los Angeles, CA after a black man was pulled over by a white cop on suspicion of drinking and driving. The cop was trying to impound the man's car and he refused, so the cop called for backup and started using physical force, and there was a croud gathered, and they began throwing rocks at the cops, and it escalated into a riot. -
Martin Luther King Jr. assissanated
MLK was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN. -
Forced Bussing begins
Desegregation busing in the United States is the practice of assigning and transporting students to schools in such a manner as to redress prior racial segregation of schools, or to overcome the effects of residential segregation on local school demographics