Civil Rights Time Line

  • Supreme court rules out educational discrimination

    Supreme court decided that there must be equal educational rights must be equal for everyone.
  • White house activist protest

    A group of civil rights activists that gathered around the white house.
  • Heman Sweatt is accapted into a white school.

    Heman Sweatt was accepted into a white school which helped bring an end to discrimination at universitys.
  • Committee on civil rights was created.

    President Truman made the committee on civil rights which suggested solutions to dicrimination
  • Segregation ended in military

    Truman ends segregation in the military.
  • Sweatt v. Painter

    Supreme Court ruled in the favor that the new school did not provide African Americans equal acedemic prestige.
  • Brown vs. board of education

    A colored girl wanted to go to an all whites school, but was denied.
  • Rosa parks denies

    Rosa PArks denies to get up for a white man on a bus that requires colored people to give up their seats for white people.
  • Bus Laws Replenished

    Supreme court over ruled bus system being segregated, and made it illegal.
  • Little Rock 9

    The school board selected nine outstanding Africa American students,known as the Little Rock Nine