Martin luther king jr civil rights supporters august 1963

Civil Rights Movement Timeline Project

By nat_101

  • The Supreme Court Decision of Plessy v. Ferguson

    The Supreme Court Decision of Plessy v. Ferguson
    the U.S supreme court upheld the "separate but equal" in a case that had happened with an African American passenger refusing to sit in a colored car on a train, the court ruling was unfair which made Plessy make a petition against the judge

  • The Tuskegee Airmen

    A group of African American military pilots as well as airmen who all fought in World War ll. Flew more than 15,000 individual sorties

  • The Integration of Major League Baseball

  • The Integration of the Armed Forces

  • The Supreme Court Decision of Sweatt v. Painter

  • The Supreme Court Decision of Brown v. Board of Education

  • The Death of Emmitt Till

  • The Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • The Integration of Little Rock High School

  • The Civil Rights Act of 1957

  • The Greensboro Four Lunch Counter Sit-In

  • The Freedom Rides by Freedom Riders of 1961

  • The Twenty-Fourth Amendment

  • The Integration of the University of Mississippi

  • The Integration of the University of Alabama

  • The March on Washington & "I Have a Dream" Speech by MLK

  • The Assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas,Texas

  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964 signed by President Johnson

  • The Assassination of Malcolm X

  • The Selma to Montgomery March : "Bloody Sunday"

  • The Voting Rights Act of 1965

  • The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee

  • The Voting Rights Act of 1968