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. Protests all over the Country

6. Bus strike, Montgomery 1955

7. Martin Luther King

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

9. March to Washington 1963