1960 The first sit in to protest at segregated lunch counters at Greensboro, North

Carolina Freedom Rides

1961 Free Rides
1962 Supreme Court ruling in Baker v. Carr on the principle of one man, one vote
1963 Birmingham riots and the March on Washington, JFK promises a Civil Rights
Bill
1964 Civil rights Act
Twenty-fourth Amendment rules as unconstitutional the imposing of a poll tax
as a prerequisite for voting in a presidential election
Freedom Summer in Mississippi
1965 Voting Rights act
Selma to Montgomery march
1966 Urban riots notably in Watts, Los Angeles
Black Power movement formed
The Supreme Court ruled that imposing a poll tax for state elections was
unconstitutional
1967 Urban riots in northern cities
1968 Martin Luther King assassination
The end national movement for civil rights

They connected the war with economic injustice, arguing that the country needed
serious moral change. But the most prominent reason they opposed the war
because it took away money and resources that could have been spent on social
welfare at home. The government was spending more money, energy and time of
the war than on their own people at home.

The KKK They wanted America to be racially pure, they saw the CRM as another as
evil and unholy as they thought that black people did should not have rights and
should all die
Barry Goldwater (civil rights act) His stance opposing the act was based on his
view that the act was an intrusion of the federal government into the affairs of
states and that the Act interfered with the rights of private persons to do or not do
business with whomever they chose
George Wallace He saw the movement and the leaders of the movement as
communist swine who wanted to take his precious America away from him

Senator Harry F. Byrd He was a white supremacist and fought hard for the
segregation on schools. The civil rights movement not only promoted that but
allowed for blacks to vote things completely sickened him.

Montgomery bus boycott

A protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit
system of Montgomery, Alabama. The campaign lasted from December 1, 1955
when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person
Sit-ins
The name is explanatory, black people either individually or in a group would sit in
In a place where they were denied service or help because of the colour of their skin
Freedom Rides
Any black or white could travel on public transportation, trying to force
desegregation of the interstate public transport
Challenging Birmingham
Marches, sit-ins , boycotts, protest altogether was happening in Birmingham
constantly to raise awareness and to fight for equality
March on Washington
MLK lead a march in Washington to keep the civil rights movement on the forefront
of the media and at the end of the march he gave one of his most memorable
speeches I have a dream
Freedom summer
In 1964 more than 100 students traveled to Mississippi to assist votr registration
and to protest against segregation