Civil rights movement timeline

  • Brown V. the Board of education

    Brown V. the Board of education

    The supreme court case that declared that segregation within schools were unlawful.
  • Rosa Parks arrest

    Rosa Parks arrest

    Rosa Parks was an African American woman who protested the Bus Segregation in Montgomery Alabama in 1955 by refusing to give up her seat to a white man.
  • Freedom Rides

    Freedom Rides

    The freedom rides were a series of protests that took place on busses to protest blacks and whites who rode together on the same buses throughout the south
  • March On Washington

    March On Washington

    The March on Washington where nearly 250,000 people gathered in Washington DC to protest civil rights
  • 16th St Baptist Church Bombing

    16th St Baptist Church Bombing

    The 16th Baptist Church Bombing took place in Birmingham Alabama on September 15th, 1963 and killed 4 young African American girls