Otis Pierre Boatright Timeline

  • Civil Rights Act

    Civil Rights Act

    The Civil Rights Act of 1866 is a piece of United States legislation that gave further rights to the freed slaves after the end of the American Civil War.
  • Jim Crow Laws

    Jim Crow Laws

    The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965
  • Brown Vs. The Board of Education

    Brown Vs. The Board of Education

    On May 17, 1954 the United States Supreme Court, which overturned earlier rulings going back to Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, by declaring that state laws that established separate public schools for black and white students denied black children equal educational opportunities. But eventually ruled to end segregation in the schools.
  • Emmett Till

    was brutally murdered
  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks

    refused to give up seat to a white man. later arrested
  • "I Have A Dream" speech

    "I Have A Dream" speech

    Martin Luther King gave his world famous speech on the 28th of August, 1963. In front of 250,000 civil right supporters.
  • Having our say

    Having our say

    a book about two over a hundered year old sisters.