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Ended segregation in schools, overturning the 1896 decision of Plessy v. Ferguson
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Rosa Parks is arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man, bringing up the idea of the bus boycotts that would go on for over a year
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The boycotters get what they wanted, ending the segregation in buses.
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Four college students in Greensbro, North Carolina, demontrate the first of many sit-ins, demanding to be served or they wouldn't leave until they were.
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Over 200,000 people gather to march for freedom and jobs. Martin Luther King Jr. gives his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. This gave the government something to think about, that would later lead to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Outlawed discrimination, giving African Americans what they had been fighting for for years. This was ver important in history, making every American with equal rights.
