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An African American woman named Rosa Parks refused to give her seat up to a white man. Her arrest gave the idea of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. African Americans around the city stopped taking the bus for over a year.
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Nine black students know as the "Little Rock Nine", went to the newly desegregated Central High School in Little Rock, Arizona.
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Four black students from North Carolina sat down for lunch at Woolworth's drugstore in the whites only seats. They were refused service. They next day the came back with 20 other people and were refused service again. The protest grew larger and larger until states began integrating public facilities.
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Seven black people and six white people boarded 2 buses in Washington D.C. and went south to test whether or not southern states were complying with the desegregation laws on transportation. When the buses arrived they were attacked. The public transportation laws became stricter in 1962
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The SCLC planned a series of non-violet protect throughout the city of Birmingham.
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Over 250,000 people marched in Washington to urge the passing of the Civil Rights Legislation. Martin Luther King gave his "I have a dream" speech here.
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The Civil Rights Act banned discrimination of race, sex, religion, and national origin.
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This outlawed literacy test and other tactics to keep African Americans from voting.
