Civil Rights Timeline

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  • Vermont

    Vermont
    Vermont IntegratesVermont is the first American state to abolish slavery.

  • Civil War

    Civil War
    Cicil WarCivil War begins.
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  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    Brown vs. Board of Education
    Brown vs. Board of EducationOn May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down decided that segregation in schools was unconstitutional.

  • Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
    Rosa ParksRosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a public bus to make room for a white man.

  • Integrated Little Rock Rock Schools.

    Integrated Little Rock Rock Schools.
    Little RockAll-white Central High School: Nine black students are blocked from entering the school.

  • Integrating North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College

    Integrating North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College
    Integrating North CarolinaFour black students begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter.

  • Integrating University of Mississippi

    Integrating University of Mississippi
    Integrating MississippiJames Meredith becomes the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi.

  • "I Have A Dream"

    "I Have A Dream"
    I Have A Dream 200,000 people join the March on Washington. Joining at the Lincoln Memorial, many poeple listen as Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.

  • Miss America

    Miss America
    First Black Miss AmericaVanessa Williams is crowned the first black Miss America.

  • First Black President

    First Black President
    OMABABarack Obama becomes first African American president of the United States