Civil rights

By Resnediz.ricardo704

  • Segregation in the Armed forces ends

    President Harry Truman issues Executive Order 9981 to end segregation in the Armed Services.
  • Brown Vs Board of education

    Brown Vs Board of education

  • Rosa parks protest segregation on buses

    Rosa parks protest segregation on buses

  • Emmett Till was brutally murdered

  • Desegregation of central high school in Little rock, Arkansas

    Desegregation of central high school in Little rock, Arkansas

  • The affects of Brown Vs Board of education

    The affects of Brown Vs Board of education

  • The Albany Movement

    This movement protested the segregation policies in Albany, Ga.

  • The Freedom Rides

    Throughout 1961, Black and white activists, known as freedom riders, took bus trips through the American South to protest segregated bus terminals and attempted to use “whites-only” restrooms and lunch counters.

  • James Meredith enrolls at the University of Mississippi

  • Martin Luther King Jr gave his "I have a dream¨ speech

    Martin Luther King Jr gave his "I have a dream¨ speech

    "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

  • John F Kennedy was assassinated and Lyndon B Johnson becomes president

  • Great Society is announced

    Great Society is announced

    ¨The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents.¨

  • Civil Rights act is passed

  • Voting right act was passed

  • The Chicago Freedom Movement

    The Chicago Freedom Movement

  • Malcolm X is assassinated

  • Bloody Sunday

    In the Selma to Montgomery March, around 600 civil rights marchers walk to Selma, Alabama to Montgomery—the state’s capital—in protest of Black voter suppression.
  • Number of black students in white schools soars in the south

    Number of black students in white schools soars in the south

  • Martin Luther King J was assassinated

  • The Fair housing Act of 1969 was passed

    The Chicago Freedom Movement was credited with inspiring the Fair Housing Act, passed by Congress in 1969.