Civil Rights Timeline Standard 2-2: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the structure and function of local, state, and national government
By rsobowale019
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Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat for a white man on a public bus.
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After Rosa Parks getting arrested a boycott was formed for the right to sit anywhere on a public bus.
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Four black college freshmen entered a whites-only Woolworth's lunch counter and demanded service. The students were refused, but they did not leave. Instead they sat for the rest of the day in the restaurant in protest.
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Freedom Riders' bus was burned outside of Anniston, Alabama. A riot against the Freedom Riders in Montgomery, Alabama, left a personal representative of the Attorney General, Robert Kennedy, nearly beaten to death.
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public support for Johnson's anti-poverty program was solidified when Michael Harrington published his book The Other America. Harrington reported that 20 percent of America's population—and nearly 40 percent of the black population—lived in poverty. Many Americans, who lived in relative prosperity, were startled by Harrington's findings.
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The letter was a rousing argument for the use of nonviolent strategies to promote change.
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Standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial, King delivered his most memorable address—his "I Have a Dream" speech. This one speech summarized the hopes of all oppressed people, and to this day remains one of the most recognizable and powerful speeches in American history.
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To enforce the Civil Rights Bill of 1964, the federal government formed the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The commission banned all discrimination based on race, religion, gender, and national origin in an act that became known as Title VII. Following passage of the Civil Rights Bill and the establishment of the EEOC, most businesses in the south immediately desegregated.