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1957 BCE
Civil Rights Act
There President had signed the the Civil Rights Act of 1957 into law -
Civil Rights Movement
Were all the same just different colors. -
Harry Truman
Harry Truman issues Executive Order 9981 to end President Lyndon B. -
Rosa Parks
She didn't want to move for a white person -
Supreme Court
the Supreme Court upholds the decision made by the Alabama district court which ruled in favor of the boycotters of the Montgomery bus lines. -
Martin Luther King jr.
He meet in Atlanta Georgia to coordinate protests against racial discrimination and segregation. -
Sixty black pastors
Sixty black pastors and civil rights leaders from several southern states adding Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Took a stand
four college students took a stand against segregation in Greensboro, North Carolina when they refused to leave a Woolworth’s lunch counter without being served. -
Interstate Commerce
President Kennedy makes an announcement ordering the Interstate Commerce Commission to create and enforce stricter fines -
When the civil rights movement took place
Arguably one of the most famous events of the civil rights movement took place of the March of Washington. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, preventing employment discrimination due to race, color, sex, religion or national origin. -
Selma to Montgomery March
around 600 civil rights marchers walk to Selma, Alabama to Montgomery—the state’s capital—in protest of black voter suppression. -
March Against Fear
James Meredith beings his journey on the "March Against Fear" -
first African American Justice
Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African American Justice appointed to the Supreme Court on September 1. -
President Johnson
He was providing regardless of race, and religion or the National orgin.
