Little Rock 9 | Sept. 4th, 1957Nine black students enroll at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas as a test of Brown v, Board of Education.
Go back to where you came from!
March On Washington | Aug. 28th, 1963More than 200,000 people gather to peacefully protest racial injustice, including
March On Washington | Aug. 28th, 1963More than 200,000 people gather at the Lincoln Memorial to peacefully protest racial injustice, including Martin Luther King Jr,, who gave his famous ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech.
We Shall Overcome!
We Shall Overcome!
Civil Rights Act | July 2nd, 1964President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law in order to prohibit discrimination and provide for successful integration for black Americans.
Now with this bill, the voice of justice speaks again.
Well, I’m going to have you arrested.
You may do that.
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat | Dec. 1st, 1955Rosa Parks sits in the front of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Since African Americans are supposed to sit in the back, she is asked to move, but she remains in her seat. Her defiance later sparked the Montgomery bus boycott.
Take care; have courage.
Bloody Sunday | March 7th, 1965600 individuals planning to March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in a peaceful civil rights demonstration are attacked by local troopers and sheriffs.