Civil Rights Movement Timeline

By Kil15witch

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Established the base for segregation. “Seperate But Equal”

  • The Tuskegee Airmen

    a group of primarily African American military pilots and airmen who fought in World War II

  • Integration of Major League Baseball

    Jackie Robinson becomes the first black man to play Major League Baseball

  • Integration of the Armed Forces

    President Harry S. Truman signed this executive order establishing the integration of the US Armed Forces

  • Sweatt v. Painter

    The university of Texas law school was deemed not “seperate but equal” this would later support the Brown v. Board of education decision

  • Brown V Board of Education

    Ended legal segregation in schools

  • Death of Emmitt Till

    The death of Emmitt Till in Mississippi would bring international attention to racial injustice in the United states

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the front of the bus leading to her arrest and also the Montgomery bus boycott which showed that African Americans can band together to fight racial inequality

  • Little Rock Nine

    9 African American students were barred from entering a school by a racist governor

  • Civil rights act of 1957

  • Greensboro Four

  • Freedom Riders

  • 24th Amendment

  • Integration of the University of Mississippi

  • Integration of University of Alabama

  • I Have A Dream Speech

  • Assassination of JFK

  • Civil rights act of 1964

  • Assassination of Malcom X

  • Bloody Sunday

  • Voting Rights act of 1965

  • Assassination of MLK

  • Voting rights act of 1968