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In 1954, (Linda) Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark case brought before the U.S. Supreme Court. The Justices unanimously ruled that separating children by race in school was unconstitutional.

BvsBOE - 1954

Brown v. Board of

Linda's father initially filed the suit in 1951. Thurgood Marshall brought the suit, along with four others, in front of the Supreme Court. The Court agreed that the students in the cases were being "deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the 14th Amendment.”

Education of Topeka, KS

The Montgomery Bus Boycott began four days after Rosa Parks infamously would not give up her bus seat to a white man. The boycott lasted 381 days. Rosa Parks is credited in history for sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Boycotts - 1955

African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama refused to ride city buses in protest of segregated seating. The U.S. Supreme Court supported the ruling of a lower courts decision that segregated seating sections was a violation of the 14th Amendment.

Montgomery

Bus Boycott

Rosa Parks is credited in history for sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

On August 28, 1963, more than 250,000 people descended upon Washington, D.C. at the Lincoln Memorial. The March was officially called the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

March On

Washington - 1963

March on

Along with other keynote speakers, this is where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech.

Washington

The Civil Rights Act was a landmark law that abolished segregation in public places.

Civil Rights Act

of 1964

It also banned employment discrimination based on an individual's race, gender, color, religion, or national origin.

Civil Rights

The Act was ultimately signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Act of 1964

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was also signed into law by President Johnson. It aimed to ensure that barriers were removed that were preventing African Americans from voting, as was guaranteed under the 15th Amendment.

No longer were polling places allowed to force an African American to take a literacy test or pay a poll tax.

Voting Rights Act

of 1965

Voting Rights

Act of 1965

Thurgood Marshall was born on July 2, 1908. He was a civil rights activist and a political leader. During Brown v. Board of Education, he was the Brown family's attorney.

Thurgood Marshall

Thurgood Marshall

In 1967, he was the first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Johnson.

Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913. She was a civil rights activist and is known for not giving up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. She was ultimately arrested and released on bail.

After her arrest, she and her husband both lost their jobs and were forced to move to Detroit, Michigan, where she died in 2005.

Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks

John Lewis was the youngest of the

"Big Six" leaders who helped organize the March on Washington, D.C. in 1963.

John Lewis

He is currently serving his 17th term as a Congressman from Georgia. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011 from President Barack Obama.

John Lewis

John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States. During the first two years of his Presidency, he was reluctant to fully or systematically embrace the civil rights movement.

Before his assassination, he had started uniting Americans by denouncing racism in any form, and had begun work on the Civil Rights Act.

John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

LBJ served as the 36th President of the United States. After Kennedy's assassination, he worked to get the Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, and Fair Housing Act signed into law.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson

Martin Luther King was a non-violent activist who was instrumental in the civil rights movement.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

His leadership and vision for a united and socially just America moved many to action and change. He was assassinated in 1968.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

March 1963

The 1963 March on Washington participants and leaders marching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial.

Civil Rights leader Ralph Abernathy (left, behind priest), his children, as well as Mr. and Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr. (behind children) lead the Selma to Montgomery march through Alabama in March 1965.

March 1965

May 1963

A police dog attacks an African American protester during an anti-segregation demonstration in Birmingham, Alabama on May 4, 1963.

March

Civil rights march on Washington, D.C. [Leaders of the march]

Little Rock, 1959. Rally at state capitol, protesting the integration of Central High School.

1959

March 1963

The 1963 March on Washington.