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Montgomery Bus Boycott
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. -
Integration of Little Rock Central
Nine black students know as the "Little Rock Nine", went to the newly desegregated Central High School in Little Rock, Arizona. -
First lunch counter sit-in
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. -
Freedom Rides
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 -
Birmingham campaign
The SCLC planned a series of non-violet protect throughout the city of Birmingham. -
March on Washington
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. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act banned discrimination of race, sex, religion, and national origin. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This outlawed literacy test and other tactics to keep African Americans from voting.
