List of Events for Civil Rights Timeline
-Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus
-Montgomery bus boycott
-Governor Farbus of Arkansas brings in National Guard to prevent black students from going into a white school.
-Sit in at Woolworth's lunch counter
-Freedom riders bus burned
-Peaceful demonstrators ruthlessly attacked in Birmingham, Alabama- MLK arrested.
-MLK writes Letter from a Birmingham jail
-March on Washington
-"I have a dream" speech given by Martin Luther King
-John F. Kennedy assasinated
-Lyndon B. Johnson becomes President
-The Other America written by Michael Harrington
-24th amendment passed
-Civil Rights bill passed
-Voting rights act 1965
-Forced busing begins
-Watts riots
-Malcom x dies
-Martin Luther King Jr. assasinated
