Quest Project - Civil Rights - Before and during the 1960´s

By dleader021
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    Vietnam War

  • Rosa Parks arrested for giving up her seat for white male

    Rosa Parks arrested for giving up her seat for white male
    First event to the mass boycott

  • Mass Boycott in Montgomery

    Mass Boycott in Montgomery
    Martin Luther King Jr said don give up your seat to a white person after the Rosa Parks arrest

  • Little Rock 9

    Little Rock 9
    9 Black students have to be escorted in a school by the military because the governor won let them go to a white school

  • Soviet Union Missile shoot down the US U2 spy plane

    Soviet Union Missile shoot down the US U2 spy plane

  • John F Kennedy becomes president

    John F Kennedy becomes president
    Kennedy said that he will help with the poor and the old, and also help with financial aid

  • New Inventions from John F Kennedy

    New Inventions from John F Kennedy
    JFK started the new era of inventions and product production

  • Martin Luther King Jr speech

    Martin Luther King Jr speech
    200,000 Americans join in Alabama to peacefully protest as MLK has his famous speech ¨I Have A Dream¨

  • John F Kennedy assassination

    John F Kennedy assassination
    Johnson became president

  • Martin Luther King Jr Assassination

    Martin Luther King Jr Assassination
    Caused riots of high schoolers and young people

  • Rioting from the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr

    Rioting from the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr