On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, AL, Rosa Parks was arrested for “disorderly conduct,” because she wouldn’t give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger.
Following her arrest African-Americans – who made up two-thirds of the bus riders in Montgomery – boycotted public transportation. The boycott lasted 381 days, until the Supreme Court deemed the segregated bus service in Montgomery unconstitutional.
As Elizabeth Eckford enters Little Rock Central High School, students yell insults.
On September 4, 1957, Eckford was the first African-American to integrate into a major southern high school. Schools in Arkansas became integrated following the Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education
1,000 students left school, on May 2, to march in downtown Birmingham in what’s now known as the Children’s Crusade. …show more content…
A 17-year-old civil rights protester is attacked by a police dog in Birmingham, Alabama, on May 3, 1963 during the Children’s Crusade.
On August 28, 1963, Dr. King addressed a crowd of over 250,000 people – including 60,000 white people – who came to hear him speak on the steps of Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., during the march on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Dr. King’s I Have a Dream speech has had a profound impact on the civil rights movement and society as a whole. The topics and principles discussed in his speech in 1963, sadly, are still relevant today.
12-year-old Sarah Jean Collins was blinded by the dynamite that killed her sister and three other young girls in the bombing of a Birmingham church on the morning of September 15, 1963.
The bombing was a part of a hate crime acted out by four Ku Klux Klan members.
Supporters, fueled by shock and outrage, rallied behind the Civil Rights Movement; their support lead to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act in
Following her arrest African-Americans – who made up two-thirds of the bus riders in Montgomery – boycotted public transportation. The boycott lasted 381 days, until the Supreme Court deemed the segregated bus service in Montgomery unconstitutional.
As Elizabeth Eckford enters Little Rock Central High School, students yell insults.
On September 4, 1957, Eckford was the first African-American to integrate into a major southern high school. Schools in Arkansas became integrated following the Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education
1,000 students left school, on May 2, to march in downtown Birmingham in what’s now known as the Children’s Crusade. …show more content…
A 17-year-old civil rights protester is attacked by a police dog in Birmingham, Alabama, on May 3, 1963 during the Children’s Crusade.
On August 28, 1963, Dr. King addressed a crowd of over 250,000 people – including 60,000 white people – who came to hear him speak on the steps of Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., during the march on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Dr. King’s I Have a Dream speech has had a profound impact on the civil rights movement and society as a whole. The topics and principles discussed in his speech in 1963, sadly, are still relevant today.
12-year-old Sarah Jean Collins was blinded by the dynamite that killed her sister and three other young girls in the bombing of a Birmingham church on the morning of September 15, 1963.
The bombing was a part of a hate crime acted out by four Ku Klux Klan members.
Supporters, fueled by shock and outrage, rallied behind the Civil Rights Movement; their support lead to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act in