Civil Rights Movement

By MadisonMaruca

  • Executive Order

    On July 26 in 1948 President Harry Truman publishes the Executive Order to end segregation in the Armed Services.

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    In 1954 the end of segregation in public schools was fulfilled by the Brown v. Board of Education which was a consolidation of five cases into one. However, it was not entirely the end because some public schools still remained segregated.

  • Emmett Till

    In 1955 there was a murder of a 14-year-old young boy named Emmett Till was brutally murdered in Chicago due to rumors of him flirting with a white woman. The case brought international attention to the civil rights movement after the publication of the poor boy's beaten and bruised body in his casket at his open-casket funeral in a magazine.

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    The Montgomery bus boycott was a movement begun by a courageous women named Rosa Parks who refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Alabama. Her act of defiance is what brings about the boycott.

  • Meeting for nonviolent protests

    Sixty Black pastors and civil rights leaders from southern states, also including the attendance of Martin Luther King Jr. had a meeting in Atlanta, GA to discuss nonviolent protests against the segregation and racial discrimination.

  • "Little Rock Nine"

    Nine Black students had been trying to attend school at the Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas, but were blocked from entering. Until President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent federal troops to escort the students into the school.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

    On September 9th 1957 President Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 into law to help protect voter rights.

  • Greensboro Sit-In

    Four African American college students were blown away by the nonviolent protest demonstrated by Gandhi, that when told to leave "whites only" lunch counter at Woolworth's they refused to leave and remained seated. This brave act sparked many other "sit-ins" throughout the city of Greensboro and other states.

  • The Freedom Riders

    Freedom Riders were both Black and White activists who took bus trips through the American South to protest segregated bus terminals and tried to use "whites only" restrooms, during these Freedom Rides horrific violence took place from white protestors and this drew attention world wide to their cause of the end to segregation.

  • March on Washington

    Around 250,000 people took part in the March on Washington for jobs and for their freedoms. This March is also where Martin Luther King Jr. gives his "I Have A Dream" speech at the end of the march in front of the Lincoln Memorial, this speech was his fight for all freedom and liberty for everyone, for the freedom and rights African Americans so rightly deserved.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, preventing employment discrimination due to race, color, sex, religion, or national origin.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, also known as the Fair Housing Act which provided equal housing opportunity regardless of race, religion, or national origin.