Events
Brown v.Board decision:
The Supreme Court decides Brown v. Board of Education on May 17, arguing that "separate but equal"
schools are inherently unequal. The decision legally prohibits school segregation, declaring it unconstitutional.Rosa Park: On Dec. 1, Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Ala.,
sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott. During that, she was arrested and got beaten by the white man.civil rights act of 1957: Congress passes the Civil Rights Act of 1957, which creates the Civil Rights Commission
and authorizes the Justice Department to investigate cases of African Americans being denied voting rights in the South.
1958King's speech On Aug. 28, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom is held in D.C.
Around 250,000 people participate, and King delivers his legendary "I Have a Dream" speech.Student sit-in:
On Oct. 19, Martin Luther King Jr. joins a student sit-in at a whites-only restaurant inside of an Atlanta
department store, Rich's. He is arrested along with 51 other protesters on the charge of trespassing.
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