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In Chicago, the congress of Racial equality had staged the first sit ins, which african american protesters sat down at segregated lunch counters and refused to leave until they were served
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Robinson wrote a letter to mayor Montgomery, Alabama, asking that bus drivers no longer be allowed to force riders in "colored" section to yield their seats to whites.
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Board of education denys eight year old Linda Brown's rights by denying her admission to an all white elementary 4 blocks from her house
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Ordered that school desegregation implemented "with all deliberate speed."
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She was the one who refused to move to the back of the bus for a white person who entered the bus. She was arrested and news of her arrest spread rapidly
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It's purpose was to carry on nonviolent crusades against the evils of second- class citizenship."
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Congress passed this law, this law gave attorney general greater power over school desegregation. It also gave the federal gov jurisdiction or authority over violations of African American voting rights
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African Am. students from NC's Agricultural and Technical college staged a sit in at whites only lunch counter at a woolworth's store in Greensboro. This time, television crews brought coverage of the protest.
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For the rest of the 1960's, many Americans worked to convince the rest of the country that blacks and whites deserved equal treatment. Even though it endured a lot of arrests, beatings, suspension from college, and tear gas and fire hoses.
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Baker had helped students at Shaw University an African American University in NC to organize a national protest group, the "Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee."
