Timeline "The civil rights movement in the USA" by

Rosa Parks

2025-05-09 15:09:38 UTC

Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat at the front of the 'coloured section' of a bus to a white passenger.

In response to her arrest the black community began a bus boycott, led by the Reverend Martin Luther Kingston,Jr, which lasted for more than a year.

Malcolm x photo

2025-05-09 15:11:39 UTC

Malcolm X was a radical civil rights leader who fought for Black empowerment, justice and human rights. Originally a minister for the Nation of Islam, he promoted Black nationalism, self-defense, and racial pride. After leaving the NOl, he converted to Sunni Islam, embraced racial unity, and founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity. Famous for his fiery speeches like "The Ballot or the Bullet," he demanded equality "by any means necessary." He was assassinated in 1965, but his legacy lives on as a symbol of Black resistance and liberation.

Andrew Goodman

2025-05-09 15:11:51 UTC

Andrew Goodman (1943-1964) was a civil rights activist and a volunteer with the Freedom Summer campaign in Mississippi in 1964. He was one of three civil rights workers murdered by the Ku Klux Klan on June 21, 1964, along with James Chaney and Michael Schwerner. Their murders, while investigating the burning of a black church, galvanized the Civil Rights Movement and led to a national outrage.