black civil rights timeline

By noahdalkie

  • President Harry Truman issues Executive Order 9981 to end segregation in the Armed Services.

    President Harry Truman issues Executive Order 9981 to end segregation in the Armed Services.

  • Emmett Till, a 14-year-old from Chicago is brutally murdered in Mississippi for allegedly flirting with a white woman

    Emmett Till, a 14-year-old from Chicago is brutally murdered in Mississippi for allegedly flirting with a white woman and the case bring international attention to the civil rights movement after Jet magazine publishes a photo of Till’s beaten body at his open-casket funeral.

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus

    Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus
    mmett Till a 14-year-old from Chicago is brutally murdered in Mississippi for allegedly flirting with a white woman. His murderers are acquitted, and the case bring international attention to the civil rights movement after Jet magazine publishes a photo of Till’s beaten body at his open-casket funeral.

  • Governor George C. Wallace stands in a doorway at the University of Alabama to block two black students from registering

    Governor George C. Wallace stands in a doorway at the University of Alabama to block two black students from registering
    Governor George C. Wallace stands in a doorway at the University of Alabama to block two black students from registering. The standoff continues until President John F. Kennedy sends the National Guard to the campus.

  • Approximately 250,000 people take part in The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Martin Luther King gives his “I Have A Dream” speech

    Approximately 250,000 people take part in The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Martin Luther King gives his “I Have A Dream” speech
    Approximately 250,000 people take part in The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Martin Luther King gives his “I Have A Dream” speech as the closing address in front of the Lincoln Memorial, stating, “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.’”

  • President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968

    President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, also known as the Fair Housing Act, providing equal housing opportunity regardless of race, religion or national origin.