Civil Rights Movement (1954 - 1968)

By DerekDS08
  • Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

    Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

  • Emmit Till's Death

    Emmit Till's Death

    two white men beat him, gouged an eye out, then drowned him in a river his mother asked for an open casket viewing
  • Montgomery, Alabama buss boycott

    Montgomery, Alabama buss boycott

    Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the front of a bus to a white man
  • Little Rock, Arkansas facilitate integration at Central High School

    Little Rock, Arkansas facilitate integration at Central High School

  • SNCC forms

    SNCC forms

    student organization conceived by the SCLC took a somewhat different approach
  • Freedom Riders Challenge segregation of interstate busses

    Freedom Riders Challenge segregation of interstate busses

  • Congress passes civil rights act of 1964

    Congress passes civil rights act of 1964

  • Assassination of MLK Jr.

    Assassination of MLK Jr.