Civil Rights Timeline

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson

    "Seperate by equal" and was overuled by Brown v. Board of Education
  • NAACP

    NAACP

    African-American civil rights organization in the United States
  • Borwn v. Board of Education

    Borwn v. Board of Education

    Courts declared that separated schools are unconstitional.
  • Emmett till Murder

    Emmett till Murder

    An African-American teenager that was lynched at the age of 14 for reportedly flirting with a white women.
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    African-Americans protested segregatd seats on Montogmery buses.
  • Little Rock Crisis

    Little Rock Crisis

    Nine students were greeted by an angry white mob determined to stop intergation on their first day of going to a white-only school.
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    Freedom Riders

    Civil Rights activists that rode buses to the segregated southern United States that challenged the United States Supreme Court that ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.
  • Freedom Summer

    Freedom Summer

    Was launched in June 1964 to attempt to register African-Americans to be able to vote.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Outlawed any discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
  • Detroit Riot Race

    Detroit Riot Race

    12th Street in Detroit evolved into the deadliest and most destructive riots known in the history of the United States. They lasted a total of five days.