The Civil Rights Movement

By kaitlynrosko

  • Brown Vs. Board of Education

    Schools ended segregation

  • The Emmett Till Murder

    murdered by whites because saying "bye baby" to a white woman

  • Montgomery Bus Boy Cott

    boycott buses for 13 months after the Rosa Park arrest

  • The Little Rock School Crisis

    prevents desegregation by calling out national troops

  • Sitins

    4 African American boys hold the first sit in

  • Freedom Rides

    abusive rides for transportation

  • The Birmingham Campaign

    ran their first nonviolent direct-action campaign

  • The March on Washington

    king delivers his "i have a dream speech"

  • Mississippi Freedom Summer

    whites help with black voter registration

  • The Civil Rights Act

    forbidden segregation in public facilities

  • Black Power

    a slogan in Mississippi that was in favour for nonviolent events

  • King is Assassinated

    he was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Tennessee