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-Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on \Montgomery Alabama bus to a while person triggering a successful year long African American boycott of the bus system
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The Montgomery bus boycott began December 5, 1955 and ended December 20, 1956, 381 days later
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The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the segregation of Montgomery, Ala., buses is unconstitutional
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The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. Helps found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to work for full equality for African Americans.
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Four African American college students hold a sit-in to integrate a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, N,C. launching a wave of similar protest across the south.
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More than 200,000 people march on Washington, D.C., in the largest civil rights demonstration ever; Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his "I Have a Dream" speech.
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Even though the 15th amendment gave all races the right too vote, laws still existed that kept them from voting
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melcom X assassinated but his killer was never found
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the largest riot in history was the watts roits
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martin luther king jr gave his speach I Have A Dream
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Killed by James earl ray. King was shot while on his balcony but who was behind the murder is controversial
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schools made black and whites go to different schools even if you lived by a school and it was for whites you could not go you would have to ga to one on the other side of town if you went to school
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