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Diana Leyva

By dleyva
  • Fair Deal

    Fair Deal

    Desegregates military
  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education

    Ended segregation in public schools and helped to end Jim Crow laws.
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Rosa parks gets arrested and there's a boycott led by Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Little Rock Nine

    Little Rock Nine

    Court ruled black students were allowed to go to Little Rock Central High School.
  • Greensboro 4

    Greensboro 4

    Students from North Carolina A&T University do sit-ins as a form of public disobedience.
  • Freedom Riders

    Freedom Riders

    White and black participants fight to end segregation in interstate travel.
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington

    Martin Luther King Jr. Has his "I have a dream speech" and led to passage of Civil Rights Act.
  • Civil Rights Act

    Civil Rights Act

    Lyndon B Johnson signs Civil Rights Act ending segregation in public places.
  • Selma March

    Selma March

    A March led by Martin Luther King Jr. that was also known as "Bloody Sunday" and was seen on TV.
  • Voting Rights Act

    Voting Rights Act

    Lyndon B Johnson signs Voting Rights Act ending literacy test.
  • Supreme Court

    Supreme Court

    Thurgood Marshal was the first African-American Supreme Court Justice. Appointed by Lyndon B Johnson
  • A Leader Dies

    A Leader Dies

    Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated on a balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray pled guilty to avoid the death penalty by electrocution.