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The practice to assign and transport students to schools in such a manner of racial segregation.
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was a political and social protest campaign
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Because she refused to give her seat up on a public bus to a white person.
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Following the intervention of President Eisenhower, it is considered to be one of the most important events in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
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Four African American college students sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworth’s and politely asked for service
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The Freedom Riders set out to confront the Jim Crow laws and make a change. They met a hatred and violence of people that burned their bus. Local police often refused to intervene and the Riders' efforts was a change in the civil rights movement.
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Prohibits citizens the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.
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Published in 1962. A widely read review, "The Other America"
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For participating in a demonstration to end segregated facilities.
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On his eleventh day he wrote this letter.
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Martin Luther King gave his big "I Have A Dream" speech in Washington with 250,000 people in attendence.
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Martin L. King led an audience of 250,000 singing "We Shall Overcome" from the Mall in Washington D.C. to the Lincoln Memorial. This was the largest civil rights demonstration the country had ever seen.To put an end to segregation, and support Kennedy's civil rights bill.
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ohn F. Kennedy was fatally killed, shot while traveling.
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Served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969.
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The Civil Rights Act ended discrimination against blacks and women, and ended racial segregation in the United States.
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Malcom X is killed by a gun.
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The Voting Rights Act ended discrimination against blacks and women, and ended racial segregation in the United States.
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The Watts Riots of 1965 lasted 6 days in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, 34 people had been killed, 1,032 injured, and 3,438 arrested.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. had been shot and killed.
