Civil Rights Images Timeline

  • Plessy v Ferguson

    Plessy v Ferguson

    it essentially established the constitutionality of racial segregation.
  • Booker T Washington

    Booker T Washington

    Most famous black man at the time and was an author, educator, orator, and philanthropist.
  • Roosevelt and Washington

    Roosevelt and Washington

    event provoked an outpouring of condemnation from white politicians and press in the American South.
  • W.E.B. DuBois

    W.E.B. DuBois

    He was the legal arm of the NAACP led the campaign to end segregation altogether, but it first targeted inequality in education.
  • Lynching of African American

    Lynching of African American

    Killing black people because of racist reasons.
  • Chicago Race Riot

    Chicago Race Riot

    Crowds gathered in Chicago after the drowning death of Eugene Williams, an African American teenager who had crossed an imaginary boundary in the water separating blacks from whites
  • Jack Johnson

    Jack Johnson

    Most famous boxer of the 20s and was heavyweight champion.
  • Racial Discriminating Deaths

    Racial Discriminating Deaths

    Map of all the hottest areas of deaths caused by racial inequality.
  • Ku Klux Klan

    Ku Klux Klan

    Group of racist white men who torture any African american people or other minorities in their eyes.
  • Marcus Garvey

    Marcus Garvey

    organized the United States' first Black nationalist movement (UNIA).
  • Louis Armstrong

    Louis Armstrong

    Made jazz music and was known as the master of the trumpeter.
  • Scottsboro Boys

    Scottsboro Boys

    each of the boys were released from prison on false rape accusation
  • Eleanor Roosevelt and Marian Anderson

    Eleanor Roosevelt and Marian Anderson

    The DAR's refusal to grant Marian Anderson the use of Constitution Hall, Eleanor Roosevelt's resignation from the DAR in protest.
  • Red Tail Squadron

    Red Tail Squadron

    Tuskegee Airmen
  • Morgan v Virginia

    Morgan v Virginia

    U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Virginia law requiring racial segregation on commercial interstate buses as a violation of the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution.
  • Truman and African American Air Force Sergeant

    Truman and African American Air Force Sergeant

    Truman shakes african american air force sergeants hand in honor.