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On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus. She was the first african american women to refuse to give a seat on the bus, before Rosa Parks.

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Montgomery Bus Boycott (Dec 5, 1955 – Dec 20, 1956)

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Montgomery Bus Boycott (Dec 5, 1955 – Dec 20, 1956)

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The Montgomery Bus Boycott was the first large-scale U.S. demonstration against segregation. African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. The boycott took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956.

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President Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first significant civil rights legislation since Reconstruction, into law on September 9, 1957. It made it possible for anybody who attempted to prevent someone from voting to face criminal charges.

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The March on Washington took place on August 28th, 1963. Leaded by civil rights leaders such as A. Philip Randolph, Bayard Rustin and Martin Luther King, Jr ect.

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 hastened the end of legal Jim Crow. It gave African Americans equal access to restaurants, transportation, and other public facilities.

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On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, taking the Civil Rights Act of 1964 a step further. The new legislation outlawed all voter literacy tests and gave federal examiners power over specific voting districts.