Civil Rights Timeline

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    Brown vs. Board of Education

    The court case that pronounced that segregation in schools is unconstitutional.
  • Emmett Till Murder

    Emmett Till Murder

    The murder of a 14 year old boy that was visiting family in Money, Mississippi for talking to a white girl.
  • Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

    The Montgomery Bus boycott and the Rosa Parks situation were political and social protest against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system.
  • Little Rock Nine

    Little Rock Nine

    A group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in which the Little Rock Crisis followed.
  • Greensboro Woolworth's Sit-ins

    Greensboro Woolworth's Sit-ins

    A series of nonviolent protests from February to July primarily at the Woolworth's store.
  • Freedom Rides

    Freedom Rides

    Civil rights movement in which activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States.
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington

    This was a march for jobs and freedom. The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans.
  • Bloomington Baptist Church Bombing

    Bloomington Baptist Church Bombing

    A racial terrorist bombing on an African American church.
  • Civil Rights Act

    Civil Rights Act

    This was the nation's premier civil rights legislation. This act outlawed discrimination based on the color of a persons skin color, sex, religion, or national origin.
  • Voting Rights Act

    Voting Rights Act

    A landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
  • "Bloody Sunday"/Selma to Montgomery March

    "Bloody Sunday"/Selma to Montgomery March

    When an estimated 525 to 600 civil rights headed southeast out of Selma on U.S. Highway 80 led by John Lewis. State troopers met the marches and beat them.
  • Loving v. Virginia

    Loving v. Virginia

    A landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.