Civil Rights Timeline

  • Race Riots

    Many blacks in Detroit forced into 60 miles while business burned
  • Brown v. Board of Education of Tropeka

    A supreme court decision that separate schools from black students and for white students
  • Montogomery Bus Boycott

    Rosa parks refused to give up seat
  • The sits in

    black males sat at an all white lunch table
  • Freedom Rides

    Hope to provoke a violent reaction that would convince the Kennedy administration to enforce the law.
  • March on Washington

    200,000 gathered at the Lincoln memorial.
  • March on birmingham alabama

    MLK was arrested
  • Civil Rights act of 1964

    Made publics segreation illegal
  • De jure vs. De Facto

    Based on custom in schools public places
  • 24 admendment

    Abolished tax to vote
  • March from selma to montgomery for voting rights

    March to register blacks voters
  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    A supreme court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws.
  • Little Rocks School intergration

    A group of nine African Americans students enrolled in little rocks
  • Voting Rights Act of !965

    Prohibits racial discrimination in voting