important dates Mlk 1958-1968

• Rosa Parks
• Claudette Colvin
• NAACP to action
• MIA (Montgommery improvement association)
• Under leadership of mlk
• Mlk organised with the MIA to boycott local buses

Postives

• created media attention
• showed blacks had ecological power

consequences

• MLK got fined and got put in prison
• It didnt actually desegregate the buses

• Was an NAACP court case
• Aurellia browder refused to give up seat and was therefore arreseted
• NAACP took it to supreme court
• Outcome was that it outlawed the desegregation of buses

• Attempted to speed up desegregation by enrolling 9 black students into little rocks all white high school.
• Local govenor refused to let them in
• Mob met the students outside school an wouldnt let them enter
• President Eisenhower ordered the governer to withrdraw national gards but he ignored
• Eisenhower ordered for the national gaurds to protect black students from mob
• Faubus(governer) therefore closed the schools
• Naacp took it to court and it was ruled that it was illegal to prevent desegregation for any reason

Significance

• The us president backed the black students
• Demonstrated effectivness of taking things to court

• Focused on civil rights in public places such as resturants,swimming pools etc
• People sat in all white seats untill was served
• By fourth day 300 blacks were attending to sit in an all white section of woolworhts
• was happening all around carolina
• KINGS sclc came involved in organising and co-ordinating action

Significance

• Showed econmic power
• Created media coverage

• The freedom rides saught to test rulings by travelling from washington DC to new orleans on interstate transport
• Was organised by CORE
• They expected to meet violent opposition
• Planned to use this to create media attention
• BULL conor refused to protect freedom riders
• He granted all the police a day off
• King gace a speech to rally freedom riders

Significance

• They marked a new high point of co-operation within civil rights as the involved CORE,SNCC,SCLC