One day in Montgomery, Alabama, a black woman named Rosa Parks stepped on the bus after a long and tiring day of work as a department store seamstress. The white people usually sit in the front of the bus, but this time Rosa decided to sit there. When the bus driver saw her, he was very mad. He said to her and three other African Americans, "Move y'all, I want those two seats." The three riders got up but Rosa did not. They sent her to jail. Martin Luther King Jr. was not happy and he lead a protest. The protest was that all black people in Alabama should stop riding the buses which is called boycotting. All black people in Alabama boycotted the buses for 381 days, which is a very long time!

In Arkansas 1957, the governor Orville Faubus called security to stop nine African-American students to enter Central High School. These nine students were known as the Little Rock Nine. They entered a former all-white school, which made people upset. Faubus thought that violence would happen if black students were allowed to enter this school. Later on, the Little Rock Nine had security to go into the school.

Martin Luther King Jr. gave a famous speech in 1963 where he attended the March of Washington. This was his, "I Have a Dream," speech. MLK helped the March because his speech left a mark on the event. The March was for black people to have rights for both jobs and freedom too.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed by President Lyndon B. Johnson. This Act meant that discrimination was no longer acceptable and allowed. This ended segregation in places and that jobs could not be segregated too.

James Meredith is an African-American who attempted to attend the all-white University of Mississippi. He applied multiple times and was not allowed to go. Meredith had many people who did not like what he was doing. Fights and chaos broke out because of this. Meredith was able to attend this university after he took this problem to court.

Greensboro Sit-In happened in 1960 where four black students refused to leave a segregated lunch table in Greensboro. This sit-in called the young African-American people the Breensboro Four. They inspired many other African-Americans to follow them as well. They fought for what they believed in.