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A movement organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference which practiced nonviolent protest campaigns. They boycotted and protested to open the door for negotiation, which they eventually did. Local business leaders decided to desegregate the big department stores.
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A massive protest march on the nations capital aimed to draw attention to continuing challenges and inequalities black people had to face. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech here and voices were heard by the whites and most importantly government officials.
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Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court rulings in favor of blacks. This helped them achieve some reform.
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African American students would sit at mainly southern stores to protest against the refusal of service towards black people. This movement spread quickly and got much attention for the civil rights movement.
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Nine African Americans would attend Central High School after the desegregation law was ordered following the Brown decision to attempt to equalize the education barriers that had already been developed.
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After Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus and was arrested,African Americans began boycotting the bus and was successful. This led to the Supreme court ruling bus segregation unconstitutional.
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The United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
