Civil Rights Pictorial Timeline

By Rufael
  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment

    Rights of citizenship, due process of law, and equal protection of the law. The 14th amendment has become one of the most used amendments in court to date regarding the equal protection clause.
  • Tuskegee Institute created

    Tuskegee Institute created

    Tuskegee Institute was established by Booker T. Washington in 1881 under a contract from the Alabama lawmaking body to prepare instructors in Alabama. Tuskegee's program gave scholarly and professional to African-Americans in agriculture and industry
  • plessy v ferguson

    plessy v ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson was significant in light of the fact that it basically settled the defendability of racial segregation. As a controlling legitimate point of reference, it forestalled sacred difficulties to racial segregation for the greater part a century until it was at long last overthrown by the U.S.
  • NAACP created

    NAACP created

    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, interracial American association made to work for the annulment of segregation and separation in lodging, education, business, casting a ballot, and transportation; to go against racism; and to guarantee African Americans their sacred rights
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    The Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution was confirmed on August 18, 1920. It pronounces that "The privilege of residents of the United States to cast a ballot will not be denied or shortened by the United States or by any State by virtue of sex. Congress will have the ability to authorize this article by proper enactment."which let women the option to cast a ballot, It was the seed planted that started the entire Women suffrage Movemennt.
  • Executive order 9981

    Executive order 9981

    This executive order abolished separation "based on race, color, religion or national origin" in the United States Armed Forces, and prompted the finish of segregation in the administrations during the Korean War
  • brown v board of education

    brown v board of education

    The U.S. supreme Court's choice in Brown v. Leading group of Education denoted a defining moment throughout the entire existence of race relations in the United States. On May 17, 1954, the Court stripped away protected assents for segregation by race and created an equivalent open door in education the rule that everyone must follow.
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights fight during which African Americans wouldn't ride city transports in Montgomery to fight isolated seating. The boycott occurred from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956
  • Little Rock 9

    Little Rock 9

    A gathering of 9 courageous African American students set out to challenge racial segregation by taking a crack at an all-white Central High School in 1957. What was the little stone nine known for? They were known for battling for change and Equal an open door in America by joining up with an all-white school.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

    Civil Rights Act of 1957

    The Civil Rights Act of 1957 didn't make new rights, however it expanded the security of casting a ballot rights and established the framework for government requirement of civil rights. The new demonstration set up the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and enabled government investigators to get court directives against obstruction with the option to cast a ballot.
  • Freedom Riders

    Freedom Riders

    The Freedom Riders rocked the boat by riding highway transports in the South in blended racial gatherings to challenge nearby laws or customs that implemented segregation in seating. The Freedom Rides, and the brutal responses they incited, supported the believability of the American Civil Rights Movement.
  • 24 Amendment

    24 Amendment

    Citizens in certain states needed to pay a charge to cast a ballot in a public political race. This expense was known as a survey charge. On January 23, 1964, the United States approved the 24th Amendment to the Constitution, denying any survey charge in races for government authorities.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964

    The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which finished segregation in broad daylight puts and prohibited work separation based on race, color, religion, sex or public starting point, is viewed as one of the delegated authoritative accomplishments of the civil rights development
  • March from Selma Alabama

    March from Selma Alabama

    Selma March, likewise called Selma to Montgomery March, a political walk from Selma, Alabama, to the state's capital, Montgomery, that happened March 21–25, 1965. Together, these occasions turned into a milestone in American civil rights development and straightforwardly prompted the entry of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Voting Rights Act of 1965

    This demonstration was endorsed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It banned the unfair democratic practices received in numerous southern states after the Civil War, including proficiency tests as another technique for barring African Americans and immigrants from casting a ballot.
  • Black Panthers

    Black Panthers

    The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was established in October 1966 in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, who met at Merritt College in Oakland. It was a progressive association with a philosophy of Black patriotism, socialism, and outfitted self-protection, especially against police ruthlessness. It was essential for the Black Power development, what parted from the integrationist objectives and peaceful dissent tactics of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
  • Thurgood Marshall appointed to Supreme Court

    Thurgood Marshall appointed to Supreme Court

    Thurgood Marshall was an African-American attorney who was dynamic during the American civil rights development time. He addressed numerous African-Americans all at once wherein numerous chances. In 1961, Marshall was delegated by then-President John Following the retirement of Justice Tom Clark in 1967, President Johnson selected Marshall to the Supreme Court, a choice affirmed by the Senate with a 69-11 vote.
  • Cesar Chavez

    Cesar Chavez

    Chavez turned into the most popular Latino American civil rights activist. Driving the battle for better rights for ranch workers, his aggressive yet peaceful tactics made the homestead workers' battle an ethical reason with wide help. His additionally acquired public mindfulness as he went on a few hunger strikes to feature his campaigns.
  • MLK assassinated

    MLK assassinated

    His assassination led to an outpouring of anger among Black Americans, which utilized feelings of trepidation of dark metropolitan wrongdoing to gather support for "the rule of law", particularly in the 1968 official mission. The death and mobs radicalized many, assisting with energizing the Black Power development.
  • Chicano Movement

    Chicano Movement

    The Chicano Movement, likewise referred as El Movimiento, was a social and political development enlivened by earlier demonstrations of obstruction among individuals of Mexican plunge, particularly of Pachucos during the 1940s and 1950s, and the Black Power development, that attempted to accept a Chicano/a character and perspective