A Civil Rights Timeline

By tanica
  • Black panther party
    1966 BCE

    Black panther party

    Practiced militant self-defense of minority communities against the U.S. government, and fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community based programs.
  • 24th amenddment
    1964 BCE

    24th amenddment

    abolished tax to vote
  • Dr. Martin Luther King
    1963 BCE

    Dr. Martin Luther King

    MLK was a man who wanted to solve everything with no violence,he led the Montgomery bus Boycott. MLK help organize non violent peaceful protests. MLK spoke good speeches to thousands of people.
  • De jure vs.De facto segregation
    1914 BCE

    De jure vs.De facto segregation

    De Jure-Segregation by law
    De facto-Segregation by practice
  • national association for advancemebt of colored people
    1909 BCE

    national association for advancemebt of colored people

    an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 by Moorfield Storey, Mary White Ovington and Its mission is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all
  • gandhi

    gandhi

    Gandhi was the leader of independence.
  • Thurgood Marshall

    Thurgood Marshall

    Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, He made decisions favoring interrogations like the brown v.Board of education of topeka
  • Race Riots

    Race Riots

    African-American teenager drowned in Lake Michigan after violating the unofficial segregation of Chicago’s beaches and being stoned by a group of white youths.
  • Malcolm x

    Malcolm x

    detractors accused him of preaching racism and violence. He has been called one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history.
  • Emmett Till

    Emmett Till

    was an African-American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman. Then was found dead 3 days later .
  • Little Rock School Integration

    Little Rock School Integration

    Guards Protected African Americans while in central high school
  • brown v. Board of Education

    brown v. Board of Education

    Court case were the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students
  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks significance in the civil rights movement was rights,and freedom. because her arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat sparked the pivotal Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott.
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Rosa Parks an African-American woman refused to give her seat to a white man on a Montgomery Bus.
  • the sit-ins

    the sit-ins

    four black students from North Carolina A&T College sat down at a Woolworth lunch table in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina.
  • Freedom Rides

    Freedom Rides

    Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States
  • March on Birmingham, Alabama

    March on Birmingham, Alabama

    A movement to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham.
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington

    Political rallies for human rights in United States history and demanded civil and economic rights for African Americans.
  • Civil Rights Act Of 1964

    Civil Rights Act Of 1964

    Made public segregation illegal, and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex
  • March from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights

    March from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights

    Martin Luther King Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference made Selma, Alabama, the focus of its efforts to register black voters in the South.
  • Voting Rights Act Of 1965

    Voting Rights Act Of 1965

    Lyndon Johnson(President) remove legal barriers for African Americans can vote.
  • Plessy v Ferguson

    Plessy v Ferguson

    United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal".