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The Montgomery bus boycott
A 13- month long boycott to end segregation on public busses, sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks -
The Student Movement
The student movement was the next major social change movement to develop in the 1960s. Many of its early organizers had first become politically active in the early 1960s working alongside blacks in civil rights protests. Composed mainly of white college students, the student movement worked primarily to fight racism and poverty, increase student rights, and to end the Vietnam War. -
¨Sit- ins¨ in Greensboro and Nashville
African American college students sat down at a local restaurant and did not get up until they were served -
Civil Rights Movement
The protests started during the late 50s early 60s and was based around the segregation of African Americans. -
Voting Rights act passes
Outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S. -
Vietnam anti-war movement
Americans opposed the Vietnam war, protesting it to stop. -
The Birmingham riots
A civil disorder and riot in Birmingham that was provoked by bombing that targeted African Americans -
US troops go to Vietnam
Troops are sent to southern Vietnam -
March from Selma to Montgomery
An effort to register black voters in the South, a 54 mile route from Selma to Montgomery was marched by protesters and they were confronted with violence, and deadly weapons from local authorities -
The March on Washington
Called for Americans to not only protest the Vietnam war, but to confront this issue of the Civil Rights and poverty within America.