Civil Rights Timeline

  • Civil war ends and 13 amendment is passed

  • civil rights act

  • plessy v. ferguson supreme court decision

  • naacp is founded

  • Jackie Robinson integrates major league baseball

  • Pres. Truman desegragates the military

  • brown v. board of education supreme court descision

  • Montgomery bus boycott

  • little rock nine enter high school

  • The first "Sit in" occurs in greensburo, NC

  • March on washington

  • Voting Rights act

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Barack Obama is elected president of the U.S