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The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1960, which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States
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After many years of segregation in sports, Jackie Robinson was welcomed into the world of baseball as the first african amercian player,
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Court case defending the rights of black and white schools.
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Emmett Till was beaten in a barn near his home and then take to a river, shot and trown in. This all heppened due to his "flirting" with a white woman. Or so some people said.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white male which lead to her arest and officially the buy boycott,
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Segregation in school was a bit thing at the time. People always arguing over if shools should be segregated or not. In 1957 a groupd of black students were forced to attend a white school.
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On May 4, 1961, a group of 13 African-American and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Rides, a series of bus trips through the American South to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals.
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The Ole Miss riot of 1962 was fought between Southern segregationist civilians and federal and state forces beginning the night of September 29, 1962
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The Birmingham campaign was a model of nonviolent direct action protest and, through the media, drew the world's attention to racial segregation in the South.
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A peacful march for jobs and rights.
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A church in burmingham, ostly acupied by black, was bombed due to racial dispute.
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On June 15, 1964, the first three hundred arrived. The next day, two of the white students, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, both from New York, and a local Afro-American, James Chaney, disappeared.
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More rights given
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The three Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965 were part of the Voting Rights Movement underway in Selma, Alabama.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Lead a peacefull march for rights to vote.
