Civil Rights

By Josho42
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    NAACP

    Founded in response to lynching and race riots in Illinois, the NAACP became the worlds premier advocates equal oppurtunity and civil rights.

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    This is a court case that went all the way to the supreme court. The verdict ended segregation in our schools.

  • Desegragation Of buses

    The Federal Interstate Commerce Commision bans segregation on buses and trains.

  • Montgomery bus boycotts

    People in Montgomery refused to ride the bus until they were treated fairly.

  • MIA

    Led by Martin Luther King, the MIA focused on racial segregation in the south.

  • Rosa parks

    Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on the bus.

  • black college kids conduct a sit-in.

    4 black College kids conduct a sit-in in a restraunt where black patrons were not allowed.

  • "I have a dream speech"

    Martin Luther King delivers the " I have a dream speech" in washington, in front of hundreds of thousands.

  • Freedom Riders

    Freedom rides begin in Washington D.C,

  • Medgar Evers killed

    Medgar Evers was killed by a sniper's bullet, because of his role as a leader of the civil rights movement.

  • Riots in Harlem

    Race Riots occur in Harlem, Philidelphia.

  • Civil rights act

    Congress passed the civil rights act, making discrimination based on race illegal.

  • Malcolm X is assassinated

    Malcolm X is shot in the chest with a sawed off shot gun.

  • Riots in Detroit

    Race riots occur in Detroit, Newark, and New jersey.

  • Watts Riots

    Watts Riots occur in Los Angeles.

  • Thurgood Marshall

    Thurgood Marshall is named first Black to be a supreme court justice.

  • Martin Luther King assassinated

    Martin Luther King Jr. is assasinated in Memphis. His shooter gets 99 years.