Civi rights timeline

Civil RIghts Timeline

  • rosa parks

    rosa parks

    -Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on \Montgomery Alabama bus to a while person triggering a successful year long African American boycott of the bus system
  • The Montgomery bus boycott

    The Montgomery bus boycott

    The Montgomery bus boycott began December 5, 1955 and ended December 20, 1956, 381 days later
  • Segregation of busses

    Segregation of busses

    The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the segregation of Montgomery, Ala., buses is unconstitutional
  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference

    Southern Christian Leadership Conference

    The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. Helps found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to work for full equality for African Americans.
  • College students hold a sit in

    College students hold a sit in

    Four African American college students hold a sit-in to integrate a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, N,C. launching a wave of similar protest across the south.
  • March on Washington, D.C

    March on Washington, D.C

    More than 200,000 people march on Washington, D.C., in the largest civil rights demonstration ever; Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his "I Have a Dream" speech.
  • voting right act

    voting right act

    Even though the 15th amendment gave all races the right too vote, laws still existed that kept them from voting
  • melcom X assassinated

    melcom X assassinated

    melcom X assassinated but his killer was never found
  • watts riots

    watts riots

    the largest riot in history was the watts roits
  • I have a dream

    I have a dream

    martin luther king jr gave his speach I Have A Dream
  • Martin Luther king jr, assassinated

    Martin Luther king jr, assassinated

    Killed by James earl ray. King was shot while on his balcony but who was behind the murder is controversial
  • Forced busing begins

    Forced busing begins

    schools made black and whites go to different schools even if you lived by a school and it was for whites you could not go you would have to ga to one on the other side of town if you went to school

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