Civil Rights Movement

By RyanMK1361

  • Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

  • Emmett Till kidnapped,beaten,and shot for allegedly whistling at a white women

  • Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger

  • Little Rock Nine go to all white school

  • 4 Black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter.

  • James Meredith became the first black student to enroll in Mississippi University.

  • Martin Luther King is arrested and put into jail after a protest.

  • Medgar Evers is murdered outside his home.

  • 200,000 people join March on Washington.

  • Jonhson signs Civil Rights Act of 1964

  • Malcon X is shot to death.

  • Blacks begin to march in Montgomery

  • Congress passes Voting Rights Act of 1965

  • Johnson issues Executive Order 11246

  • Black Panthers form.

  • Assassination of Martin Luther King