Civil Rights

By MrGoldberg

  • Plessy v. Ferguson (1986)

  • Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

    Supreme Court rules that "Separate" is inherently "unequal" -- this case over-rules Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which said that "Separate but Equal" was constitutional under the 14th Amendment

  • Emmett Till is killed in Money, MS

  • Rosa Parks is arrested in Montgomery, Alabama

    She refused to give up her seat on the bus, and as a result, people in Montgomery, led by the young MLK, stayed off the busses in a boycott that lasted for more than a year (‎December 5, 1955 – December 20, 1956)

  • The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

    MLK gave a famous speech at this event, and the event was attended by about 200,000 to 250,000 people in front of the Lincoln Memorial.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

  • MLK assassinated