Civil Rights Timeline

  • Brown vs The Board of Education

    Brown vs The Board of Education
    This case was made by the members of the local NAACP in Toeka, Kansas. Only thirteen of the parents volunteered to participate, so in the summer of 1950 they took their children to schools in their neighboorhood and attemped to enroll them in a all white school.
  • Emmit till

    Emmit till
    The case of emmit till hapened in aug 28, 1955 when Emmit and his frieind went to visit their gradparents down in the south. As they arrive Emmit thought it was a good idea to talk to a white girl, so as he talked to her he left and went to their grandparents house. At night two men confroeted him and killed him. as the results the family had a open casket to see what they did to his boy.
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott
    On this day a women by the name of Rosa Park refused to yelid her seat to a white man on the Montgomery Bus. As she yelid her seat the driver of the bus called to the cops to arrest Rosa parks. As news spread across the U.S the african american were raged, so they had Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to lead the boycott of the bus.
  • Little rock Nine

    Little rock Nine
    The Little rock Nine refers when 9 african americans went to a all white school at Little Rock centurall high. Their enrollment was followed in a crisisin which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus.
  • Sit-ins

    Sit-ins
    With the following of the oklahoma sit-ins The use of tact began to spread. For the use of these tacts they had to get used of people using the N word multipul times and not to fight when they get near to them.
  • Brimingham, Alabama

    Brimingham, Alabama
    In 1963 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and sent to jail because he and others were protesting the threatment of blacks. The court had orderd that King could not hold protests in Birmingham
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington
    On this date Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made his most famous and memorable speach and it is his "I have a Dream" Speach. In his speach Dr. King's speach was about how his "four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."