Preceden

MLK vs Malcolm X

Events

Montgomery Bus Boycott

December 1955 - December 1956

Rosa Parks

12/1/1955

December 1st- Rosa Parks, a civil rights activist refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. This event led to the creation of the Montgomery bus boycott.

MLK, Steele, and Shuttlesworth created the SCLC

January 10 1957

MLK arrested during an anti-segregation protest in Birmingham

April 1963

MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech

August 1963

Malcolm X Assassination- review date

February 1965