Desegregation Timeline

  • Horace Mann

    Horace mann opens for boys
  • Blossom plan

    It was the plan to desegragate from high school down.
  • Brown v. Board

    Black and whites had to get equal education opprotuinties unconstitutional
  • Fayetteville Public Schools

    Desegragation Date
  • Hoxie Schools Desegregate

    Segregationist gather around the school and began to protest.
  • Emmett Till Dies

    Emmett till is murdered for wisteling at a white girl.
  • Southern Manifesto

    The Document was written opposed to racial integragation.
  • White Cittizen's Council Formed

    They were a group just like the KKK but they were more upper class.
  • Expected date of Central High Desegregation

  • Minnijean Brown Expelled

  • Charleston Schools desegregation

  • Federal Judge Orders Desegregation

  • Little Rock Central opened

    Forced segregation
  • Elizabeth Eckford

    Elizabeth Eckford is denied
  • Gives orders to the National Guard

    Faubus gives orders to the national guard to stop 9 black children from going to school
  • Nine students are escorted by the National Guard

  • Federal court rules school

    closes as unconstituational
  • Ernest green graduates from Central High

  • Fuabus closes the schools

  • Ernest Green graduates

  • Martin Luther King Jr. Marches on Washington

  • Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act

  • Bloody Sunday in Montgomery

  • Malcolm X is Murdered

  • Voting Rights Act

  • Last Graduating class of Dunbar High

    Last all-Black class to graduate