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Rosa Parks
After the boycott that Rosa Parks started, she would go on to found more civil right events. She moved to Detroit after continued harassment because fo the movement she had started. Near the end of her life, she would give money to many events and co-found a self-development company. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
This Boycott was a civil rights protest, were the African Americans in Montgomery refused to ride the city buses. This was caused by Rosa Parks being arrested for not giving up her seat on the bus to a white man. -
Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine students who decided to enrol in an all-white school. On their first day of school, the Governor sent the national guard to block the nine students from entering the school. Later that month the president would send federal troops to escort the students around the school to their classes. -
Albany Movement
The Albany Movement was to help all the violence and discrimination that was going on in the city of Albany. When the interstate commerce commission put a ban on segregation on the bus terminals, nine African Americans would test out if the city would follow the rules. They all went to sit at bus terminals and none of them was arrested. -
Freedom Riders
The Freedom Riders were a group of White and African Americans who rode buses and protested against segregated terminals. These African Americans would try to use the white only bathrooms, and break other socially unacceptable things. -
March on Washington
The March on Washington was when around 250,000 people gathered around the Lincoln Memorial. This massive protest was created to get equal jobs and freedom. This March was also when Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous speech, "I have a dream." -
Birmingham Campaign
The Birmingham Campaign was a movement to attack the local city's segregation system. This movement was led by King and the Southern Chrisitan Leadership Conference. They would put pressure on the merchants of the town during the second biggest shopping season of the year. -
New York School Boycott
This School Boycott was a massive Citywide Boycott that would attack that school system. They wanted to end the segregation of schools, and wanted to fully integrate into public schools. -
Freedom Movement
The Freedom Movement was an era where there were huge examples of African Americans protesting. Starting with the boycotting of buses to Bloody Sunday. This era shaped America and showed many at the time the African Americans are equal to Whites in every way and deserve to be treated as so. -
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday refers to a 54-mile march that took place. This march was almost uninterrupted until the KKK blocked their path. Many African Americans were harmed by whips, barbed wire, and clubs. Although many African Americans were harmed none of them fought back. -
Voting Rights Act
The voting rights act has been a development that has taken place in our country. Before this act, many African Americans were being mistreated for voting and many of them wouldn't vote at all. Ever since the act was passed the percentage of African American voters has gone up. -
Martin Luther King assassination
King's assassination would leave the country to mourn. He had done lots for our country like start the Southern Christian Leadership, being a Baptist Pastor, and leading the Civil Rights movement. King's assassination was a sad day for our country. -
Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Chisholm was the first African American congresswoman. She was a politician, educator, and author and served in Congress from 1969 to1983. Shirley Chisholm is an example of how America changed over time and the jobs and power are being distributed between African Americans and White, both Men and Women. -
Guion Bluford
Guion Bluford was the first African American Astronaut. He was a retired air force pilot and went on to be the first African American in space. He showed our country that African Americans can do amazing things for our country. -
Ernest Green
Ernest Green was one of the Little Rock Nine and was the first student to graduate at central high. He went on to be on many boards dealing with the advancements in African Americans. -
Elizabeth Eckford
Elizabeth Eckford was one of the students apart of the Little Rock Nine. She would go on and serve our country in the military for five years. She would also become a Journalist later in her life. She showed changed our country and showed us bravery in going to central high and when she was in the army. -
Terrence Roberts
Terrence Roberts was one of the Little Rock Nine. After high school, he travelled to California and would get his bachelors degree there. His life had changed over the year from wanting to be killed at his school to earning his bachelors degree and becoming director of a mental health facility and helping some private colleges. -
King Memorial
The Martin Luther King Jr. memorial was built to remember the Baptist minister who leads the civil rights movement. This memorial shows development in our country because a national monument was made, and during his time many hated him. -
Barack Obama
Barack Obama shows development in our country when he became president. It shows that African Americans have had important jobs that help our country but only 50 years ago this wouldn't have been acceptable. -
Birmingham National Monument
The Birmingham Monument was built to remember the civil rights movement and all that it did for our country. This monument was considered one of the most endangered historic places in 2015. This monument shows how our country has seen development and has been able to celebrate the civil rights movement. -
Works Cited
History.com and BlackPast.org were used for finding Information.
Wikipedia Was used in finding most the pictures of the people in the timeline.
