Civil Rights Movement Time-Line

Brown vs. Board of Education

May 17, 1954

Supreme Court ruling that made segregation in public schools illegal. Beginning of the Civil Rights Movment

Emmett Till Murder

Aug 28, 1955

Emmett Till was murdered for speaking "fresh" to a white woman. His body was found in the Tallahatchie River. The two men arrested for his murder were found not guilty.

The Little Rock Nine and Integration

1957

The 9 African American students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957.