Civil Rights

By Kyle Erickson

  • NAACP

    The NAACP is formed

  • Rosa Parks born

  • Martin Luther King JR. Born

    Martin Luther King JR. Born

  • First Afircan American Baseball Player

    Jackie Robinson becomes first African American to play Major Leauge Baseball

  • African American boy beaten to death.

    White lynched, beatewn and shot an african American 14 year old, for saying "bye, baby" to a white woman in Mississippi
  • Rosa Parks sits on bus

    Rosa Parks sits on bus

    Rosa Parks refuses to move from her seat on the bue, when a white man told her too.

  • Boycott ends

    The Montgomery bus boycott comes to a close

  • Kelly Ingran Park

    African-Americans are brutally beat, sicked by police dogs, and sprayed with fire hoses.

  • First Black student

    James Merideth begins schooling at University of Mississippi. Violence and Riots cause JFK to send 5000 troops

  • JFK has a sit-down

    President Kennedy meets with other civil rights leaders to call off the march to washington.

  • March to Washington

    The march to Washington kicks off with over a quarter million people participating, Martin Luther King delivers his "I have a dream" speach.

  • Civil Rights are given to all african-americans

    The civil rights bill is passed.

  • Race Riot in Newark

    African Americans begin rioting against whites in Newark

  • Martin Luther is killed

    Martin Luther King JR is shot dead at his hotel

  • Rosa Parks dies

    Rosa Parks dies in Detroit Michigan.