key figures
He delivered the famous “I Have a Dream” speech during the 1963 March on Washington.
Martin Luther King Jr
This peaceful protest in 1963 gathered over 250,000 people in Washington, D.C
the March on Washington
This 1964 law outlawed segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Martin Luther King Jr. promoted this type of peaceful protest.
nonviolent resistance
This woman refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in 1955, sparking a year-long boycott.
Rosa Parks
This year-long protest against bus segregation in Alabama began after Rosa Parks’ arrest.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
This Supreme Court decision declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
Brown v. Board of Education
Young activists staged these peaceful protests at segregated lunch counters in the early 1960s.
sit-ins
He was the first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court and won Brown v. Board of Education as a lawyer.
Thurgood Marshall
These 1965 marches from Selma to Montgomery aimed to secure voting rights and were met with brutal resistance on “Bloody Sunday.”
the Selma to Montgomery marches
This 1965 law outlawed discriminatory voting practices like literacy tests and poll taxes.
the Voting Rights Act of 1965
These groups of Black and white riders tested segregation on buses in the South in 1961.
the Freedom Riders