Civil Rights Movement
by mariangela galante
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