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Civil Rights Timeline

  • Nat Turner Rebellion

    Nat Turner Rebellion

    It proved how bad blacks wanted freedom.
  • Dred Scott Decision

    Dred Scott Decision

    This showed the difference between the North and South and this helped push the Civil War.
  • Emancipation Proclimation

    Emancipation Proclimation

    Freed the slaves.
  • Tuskegee Institute Opens

    Tuskegee Institute Opens

    Opening a school for blacks.
  • Norris vs. Alabama

    Norris vs. Alabama

    Showed that there was still racism between blacks and whites.
  • Rosa Parks Sits on the Bus

    Rosa Parks Sits on the Bus

    Blacks still didn't have all the rights that whites did whites got it their way.
  • Jackie Robinson Breaks Color Barrier

    Jackie Robinson Breaks Color Barrier

    The first black male athlete in history whcih forever changed sports.
  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    Brown vs. Board of Education

    This pushed passed the equal but seperate so things would truly be equal by law.
  • Murder of Emmett Till

    Murder of Emmett Till

    This event showed the racism that was still around in the south worse than the north.
  • Little Rock 9

    Little Rock 9

    Little Rock 9, was the first time nine black teenagers were sent to a public school. Although, they were escorted by National Guard and the U.S. Army.
  • Letter from Birmingham Jail

    Letter from Birmingham Jail

    It contributed to equal rights.
  • March on Washington "I Have a Dream Speech"

    March on Washington "I Have a Dream Speech"

    Was the march for jobs and freedom. It was the largest demonstration they had seen with 250,000 people attending.
  • Civil Rights Act

    Civil Rights Act

    It made blacks and whites equal rights by law.
  • Assassination of Malcom X

    Assassination of Malcom X

    He was a more extreme version of Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Election of Barack Obama

    Election of Barack Obama

    In 2008, was the election of the first black President, Barack Obama.