Civil Rights Time Line

  • The Dred Scott Case

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • 13th Amendment

  • 14th Amendment

  • 15th Amendment

  • Plessy vs. Ferguson

  • Creation of the NAACP

  • 19th Amendment

  • Jackie Robinson Breaks the Color Barrier

  • Brown vs The Topeka Board of Education

  • The Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • Little Rock Nine

  • The March on Washington

  • "I Have A Dream" Speech

  • Freedom Summer

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

  • Jim Crow Laws

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

  • Selma, Alabama Marches

  • Creation of the Black Panther Party

  • Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Equal Rights Amendment

  • Title IX

  • Roe vs Wade