Civil rights movement

  • Brown v board

    Brown v board
    This was a major court case that said that segregation was unconstitutional and that it should be desegregated.
  • Montgomery bus boycott

    Montgomery bus boycott
    The Montgomery bus boycott happened between 1955 and 1956 after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat the African-American community Montgomery then did a Boycott that was led by MLK.
  • The Little Rock nine

    The Little Rock nine
    Nine Black students who attended the school faced hardships and discrimination and had to be led by federal troops
  • First lunch counter sit in

    First lunch counter sit in
    Four African-American college students sat at a whites only lunch counter This was known as sit ins a way to protest.
  • Freedom rides

    Freedom rides
    Groups of African-American and white civil rights people. Rode buses to the south to protest any illegal segregation.
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington
    Many people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC to call for “freedom”. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic. I have a dream speech.
  • Civil rights act of 1964

    Civil rights act of 1964
    This was a law that made it illegal to discriminate people for their race, color and religion.
  • Voting rights of act 1965

    This was a law that protected black Americans right to vote by banning unfair voting practices.