a civil rights timeline

  • plessy v. ferguson

    plessy v. ferguson

    legalized segregation witch allowed for whit or black people to split people up because of there race
  • NAACP

    NAACP

    stared to end segregation
  • thurgood marshell

    thurgood marshell

    lawyer for naacp
  • the sits-ins

    the sits-ins

    core did 1st peaceful sti-in protest
  • brown v. board of education of topeka

    brown v. board of education of topeka

    this was a thing in court so black people would not be treated different
  • Montgomery bus boycott

    Montgomery bus boycott

    The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.
  • rosa parks

    rosa parks

    Rosa parks is a African american that wanted civil rights so she stood up and sat in the front of the bus and then she got rested
  • emmett till

    emmett till

    Emmett till was a man form Chicago who went to the south. he was in a diner and he said bye baby to a white girl. then people went after him. and they killed him. and the people who killed was found not guilty. his mother had a open casket at the funereal she said "i want a open casket so everyone can see what they did to my boy".
  • little rock nine

    little rock nine

    the little rock nine was a 9 Africans Americans who went to school at little rock high. white people hated so much they had police and military at the school to help them go to school without harm
  • freedom rides

    freedom rides

    protest on segregation laws on inner states buss routs
  • march on Washington

    march on Washington

    the march on Washington is when MLK spoke his i have a dream speech.
  • march on Birmingham, Alabama

    march on Birmingham, Alabama

    people walked 54 miles from Selma to Montgomery. they were beaten by police when they arrived
  • civil rights act

    civil rights act

    it is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion and sex.
  • 24th amendment

    24th amendment

    the right for any us citizen to vote for any politician
  • malcolm X

    malcolm X

    malcolm x was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist
  • voting rights act

    voting rights act

    eliminated literacy fests for voting
  • race riots

    race riots

    it was urban violence because black people wanted to stand p for themselves.
  • march form Selma to Montgomery for voting rights

    march form Selma to Montgomery for voting rights

  • de jure vs de facto  segregation

    de jure vs de facto segregation

    segregation by law or by custom.
  • black panther party

    black panther party

    The party's original purpose was to patrol African American neighborhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality.
  • dr.martin luther king jr./gandi/thoreau/randolph

    dr.martin luther king jr./gandi/thoreau/randolph

    those were all people who stood up for there rights and what rights for other people.