Civil Rights Movement

1. 1964: The Government made new laws to guarantee equal rights to black people

2. August 1963: 250,000 people, black and white, marched to Washington. MLK made the famous "Ihave a dream" speech

3. MLK put in prison

4. Black people arrested

5. Bus strike, Montgomery 1955

6. Martin Luther King

7. Rosa Parks refused to give up her place to a white person on bus and was arrested

8. Protests all over the Country

9. March to Washington 1963