Civil Rights Digital Timeline

  • Brown v Board of Education

    Brown v Board of Education

    The brown v board of education was where the racial segregation between the public schools and how it displayed the fourteen amendment
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    It was a political war going on with racial segregation between transportation and it was where the African Americans refused to ride the buses in Montgomery.
  • Little Rock 9

    Little Rock 9

    This was where 9 African Americans were enrolled in a white school and it took place in Arkansas.
  • Freedom Riders

    Freedom Riders

    A group of African and white people traveled on and participated and protested in racial segregation for the buses and transportation.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964

    It was where there was a protest going on based on gender, race, culture, and promoting rights to these people despite their color or where they are from and who they are.
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Voting Rights Act of 1965

    It was a piece made bu the federal legislature in the US where they would ban racial discrimination in the voting system.
  • Black Panthers

    Black Panthers

    A political organization was made by Huey and Bobby and it was a political challenge and was just to protect the African Americans community.
  • Thurgood Marshall appointed to Supreme Court

    Thurgood Marshall appointed to Supreme Court

    It was where the first African American to serve in the supreme court and it was a big thing after what the African Americans have gone through.
  • American Indian Movement founded

    American Indian Movement founded

    It was a federal thing going on where people were frustrated and people and Indians came together to talk about the issues related to this.
  • 15 Amendments

    15 Amendments

    This amendment states that all people can vote regardless of skin or anything and is also protected.
  • tuskegee institute created

    tuskegee institute created

    It was a school and the reason this school was created was just to help teachers get taught in Alabama.
  • Executive order 9981

    Executive order 9981

    It was to ban racial segregation and this should end the segregation that was happening in US and create equal opportunity in America
  • (ERA) Equal Rights Amendment proposed and defeated

    (ERA) Equal Rights Amendment proposed and defeated

    It was the political war where the U.S constitution would not let a woman have rights and would discriminate women
  • 24 amendment

    24 amendment

    It was an amendment that where when they had to vote they have to pay the poll tax and this was beneficial because it was good for the national election but not everyone liked this idea of paying poll tax
  • Sonia Sotomayor appointed to Supreme Court

    Sonia Sotomayor appointed to Supreme Court

    This was where the care and medical was affordable and where the marriage and age gap was all in 50 states and was redone by Obama in 2009 when he was president and how a Hispanic was in the supreme court.