May
17th 1954 |
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously
that racial segregation in schools should no longer be allowed. |
| Dec 1st 1955 |
On a bus in Montgomery, Alabama Rosa Parks,
a 43 year old black seamstress refused to give up her seat to a white
male passenger. Her subsequent arrest caused a protest and a local
boycott by black Montgomery residents of the bus service. This lasted
for one year until the buses were desegregated. |
| May 1963 |
Civil rights protesters in Birmingham, Alabama
had fire hoses and dogs set on them. The action was broadcast on international
news and generated widespread sympathy for the movement. |
| Aug 28th 1963 |
Almost 200,000 people flock to the Lincoln
memorial in Washington to hear Dr Martin Luther King’s “I
Have a Dream” speech. |
| Feb 21st 1961 |
Malcolm X, a black nationalist and protester
is shot and killed. |
| Aug 11th 1965 |
Race riots erupt in Los Angeles |
| April 4th 1968 |
Dr Martin Luther King is shot and killed.
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