Human has rights

Civil Rights Timeline

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  • Brown Vs. Board of Education

    Segregation in schools is inherently unequal, court ruled it true.

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up seat on bus

    It was a planned thing.

  • Montgomery bus boycott

    Lasted from 1955 - 1956

  • Governor of Arkansas calls National Guard to prevent black students from attending

  • Sit in a Woolworth's lunch counter

    4 black students refused service.
    Staged a sit in.
    1000 students by the end of the week,

  • The Freedom Riders' bus is burned

  • Mr. King writes a letter from a Birmingham jail

    Gains support for the Civil Rights movement

  • March On Washington

    Mr. King gives his " I Have A Dream" speech

  • LBJ sworn to be president

  • JFK assassinated

    x__x

  • Civil Rights bill passed

  • Voting Rights Act

  • Malcom Little (X)

    assassinated

  • Mr. King assassinated

    x_x

  • Forced bussing

    Forces integration in schools
    (Attempt) to work