Black History Civil Rights Movement description

Discover the inspiring history of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States with photos, timelines and videos.

To honor Martin Luther King, Jr, Rosa Parks and John Lewis, we present these history photos, videos and timeline on the 50th anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King Jr.

The brave history of the Civil Rights Movement will come to life with these history timelines from the lunch counter sit-ins and freedom rides to the brave marches.

Featuring videos of important in Civil Rights Movement history and historical photos and pictures, key events in the Civil Rights Movement are explained and relived.

Interactive timelines that you control on your phone or tablet with allow you to scroll through the centuries make it easy to explore this important American history.

Important people and events you will meet include:
1) Days of Slavery.
2) Reconstruction and Jim Crow Era.
3) Brown vs brown court decision to desegregate the schools
4) Emmett Till's murder
5) Martin Luther King Jr.
6) Montgomery Bus Boycott
7) Desegregating Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas
8) Lunch counter sit-ins
9) Voter registration drives
10) President Kennedy's and Civil Rights
11) Freedom Rides of 1961
12) Birmingham, Alabama Campaign
13) 1963 March on Washington
14) 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in which four girls were killed
15) Malcolm X joins the movement, 1964 - 1965
16) Nonviolence and Nonviolence Training of Civil Rights Movement activists
17) Integration of Mississippi and American universities
18) Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
19) Summer of 1964: Freedom Summer
20) Civil Rights Act of 1964
21) Selma Voting Rights Movement
22) Voting Rights Act of 1965
23) Black power (1966 - 1968)
24) Poor People's March 1968
25) Martin Luther King assassination
26) Civil Rights Act of 1968
27) Underground Railroad
28) Emancipation Proclamation
29) Juneteenth Independence Day and Freedom Day


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