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The Arrest of Rosa Parks
On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama Rosa Parks would not give up her seat to a white person so she was arreted. -
Greensboro Sit In
The Greensboro sit in took place in Greensboro, NC. It started by Ezell Blair, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, and David Richmond. They sat at an all white lunch counter and did not move, it soon led to other protests like this one. In result theaters, hotels, hospitals, and other public places desegragated voluntarily. -
Bloody Sunday
On March 7, 1965 in Selma Montgumery there was a nonviolent march. The march was led by Martin Luther King Jr. The march was for equal rights and it led to the Voting Rights Acts of 1965. -
King Assanation
Martin Luther King Jr. was killed by Harvey Lowmeyer in Memphis Tennesse. Harvey Lowmeyer shot him. This led to riots. -
Busing In Charlotte
In the year of 1969 in Charlotte, NC a case went to the supreme court. The judge was Judge McMillian and the case was about the school buses. The school buses were segregated so it took a lot longer for black children to get home. In result Judge McMillian found it unconstituitanal and the school buses became intergrated.
