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US Civil Rights Timeline

  • Voting Rights Act of 1865

    Voting Rights Act of 1865
    Proteset for women rights to vote
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott
    Rosa Parks refuses to get out of the white section of a bus and gets arrested. Maritn Luther King Jr. leads a bus boycott. Montgomery, AL
  • Greensboro Sit-in

    Greensboro Sit-in
    Black people protest for rights to sit at a particular lunch counter. Greensboro, NC
  • Freedom Riders

    Freedom Riders
    Afican American children protest for equal rights. Police react by releasing vicious dogs on them and use high pressure water hoses. Brimmingham, AL
  • King Assaination

    King Assaination
    Martin Luther King Jr., a civil riehts leader ,gets assinated. This causes a roit acroos the United States. Mephis, TN