Civil Rights Movement

By charleszavalney

  • Brown V. Board of Education

    Segregated public schools.

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Segregate busses eventually deemed unconstitutional.

  • Interstate Commerce Commission Desegragated Busses and Trains

    Result to Montgomery Bus Boycott, Deemed segragated busses to be uncostitutional.

  • Woolworth Sit-Ins

    Nonviolent protest in Greensboro NC, led to reversing the policy of racial segregation in the US.

  • Freedom Riders

    Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated souths states.

  • Baker v. Carr

    Case ruled that federal courts have the power to determine the constitutinality of a states voting districts.

  • Medgas Evers Assassinated

    Landmark murder because evers was an anknowledged civil rights advocate.

  • March on Washington

    200,000 people join the march on Washington congregating as the lincoln memorial participants listen as martin luther king delivers his i have a dream speech.

  • Gideon v. Wainwright

    This case required the states to provide defense attorneys to criminal defendants charged with seriouse offenses.

  • Church Bombing in Birmingham Alabama

    Church bombing killing four african american women.

  • Civil rights Act of 1964

    Outlawed discimination based on Race, color, relition, sex, or national origin.

  • Escobedo v. Illinois

    This court case deemed it that indigent criminal defendants had a right to be provied counsel at trial.

  • Malcolm Z Killed

    Famous civil rights leader who spoke for the nationa of Islan spread of the Black power philosophy.

  • Voting Registation March

    From Selma to Montgomery was the 5-day 54 mile march from Selma Alabama where local African American marched to the steps of the capitol in a peaceful protest for viting rights.

  • Watts Race Riot

    This was a riot that was against racial segregation. Six day riot, that resulted in 34 deaths, 1,032 reported injuries, and 3,438 arrestes. Plus over 40 Million dollars in property damage.

  • Civil rights Act

    Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion sex or national origin.

  • Black Panther Rise to Prominence

    This was a civil rights activist group that focused on civil equality.

  • Miranda v. Arizona

    Case that ruled detained criminal suspects prior to police questioning must be informed of their constitutinal right to an attorney and against self incrimination.

  • Thurgood Marchall Appolinted to Supreme Court

    First African American to sit on Americas hightest court.

  • Martin Luther King assassinated

    Decistating to the nation, King was an american clegyman activist and prominent leader of the African American civil rights movement.

  • Robert Kennedy Assassinationed

    Tragic to the nation, kennedy supported having equal rigts ofr black americans. He was assassinated because of these views.

  • Olympics Black Power Salute

    Tommie Smith and John Carlos during their Medal Ceremony at the 1968 SUmmer Olympics in they raised a Black Gloved Fist and kept them raised until the anthem had finished.

  • Voting Rights Act

    federal legislation passed that prohibits discriminationin voting.

  • Bakke v. University of California

    Decision by the Supreme Court of the US that upheld affirmative action allowing race to be one of the several factors in college admission policy.