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Civil Rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating.
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The first institutions to integreate would be the high schools, beginning in September 1957.
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By sitting in protest at an all-white lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, four college students sparked national interest in the push for civil rights.
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Took place on May 4, 1961, when seven black and six white people left Washington, D.C., on two public buses bound for the Deep South.
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Birmingham movement was a movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama.
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The march was successful in pressuring the administration of John F. Kennedy to initiate a strong federal civil rights bill in Congress.
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Ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. It's considered one of the crowning legislative achievement of the civil rights movement.
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It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civl War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.
