civil rights movement

By matthew barron

  • plessy v. ferguson

    Court case that made segregation legal

  • Tuskegee airmen

    Black piloted that fought in ww2

  • Integration of Major league baseball

    Jackie Robinson becomes first black man to play in the mlb

  • Integration of armed forces

  • Sweaty v. Painter

  • Brown v. Board of education

    Court case that desegregates schools

  • Death of emmitt till

    A young black child beaten to death for a accusation of a white woman

  • Montgomery bus boycott

    Boycotts of the buses in Montgomery

  • Integration of Little Rock Highschool

    9 black students allowed to get education at white school to desegregate it

  • Greensboro four lunch counter sit it

  • Freedom rides by freedom riders of 1961

  • 24th amendment

  • Integration of university of Mississippi

  • Integration of the university of Alabama

  • March on Washington

    Largest gathering of people in history at the time

  • JFK assassination

    November 22 1963 President Kennedy shot and killed in Dallas texas

  • Civil rights act

    Act of congress that prohibits segregation

  • Assassination of Malcom x

    Civil rights leader Malcom x killed

  • Bloody sunday