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Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to yield her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. She was arrested and fined. The boycott of public busses by blacks in Montgomery began on the day of Parks' court hearing and lasted 381 days.
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Student Nonviolent Coordinat Committee, it emerged by Ella Baker, held at Shaw University
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Civil Rights activist who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern U.S.
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Evers was assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith, a member of the WhiteCitizens' Council, a group formed in 1954 to resist integration of schools and Civil Right activity. Evers' murder and the resulting trials inspired civil rights protesters, as well as numerous works of art, music, & film.
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Was oneof the largest political rallies for human rights in U.S. History demanded civil and economic rights, & also jobs for African-American people.
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Prohibiting any poll tax in elections for Federal officials.
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Is a landmark piece of Civil Rights legislation in the U.S. that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national orgin.It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in scholls, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public.
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Martin Luther King Jr. led thousands of non-violetion demonstation to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, 5 days, 54 miles march with local African-Americans, and with the SNCC.
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Signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson, aimd to overcome legal barriers at the state and ocal levels that prevented Afican-American from exercising their right to vote (15th Amendment 1870) under the constitution of the U.S.
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Martin was an American Clergyman and Civil Rights leader who was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
