DECADES INFOGRAPHIC

1956

The protest

After Rosa Parks arrest, local African-Americans stopped traveling by bus as a protest, for 382 days.

1968

King was one of the leaders of the movement . He led the African-Americans in a long fight for equality. Unfortunately, King was assassinated in 1968.

Luther King assassination

2009

Only fifty years later, in January 2009, Barack Obama became the first African-American President of the United States. It was a historic moment.

Barack Obama

2005

Rosa Parks died on 24th October 2005. She was 92 years old. She inspired a lot of people and many people call her “The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement”.

"The Mother of the CRM"

1964

In this year the civil right movement was created, it wanted to abolish segregation laws and stop racial discrimination.

Civil Rights Movement

1955

Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man inMontgomery, Alabama.

1 December 1955

ROSA PARKS