Civil Rights Timeline

By Jenipher

  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    The case led a innocent man to be taken to the Supreme Court for buying a first class ticket and sitting in the train and was blamed for violating the 13 & 14 Amendment.

  • Mendez v. Westminster

    Her fathers case led Mexicans to be let into schools.

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    Brown V. Board Of Education was a case about a mom who wanted to send her daughter to a school close to her job but it was not desegregated yet.

  • Emmit Till Murder

    A Fourteen-year-old who was visiting his family allegedly whistled at a white woman and was beaten, shot , and threw into a river.

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat

    Rosa Parks had a long day at work and wanted to sit in her correct seat and a white man got on the bus and ordered her to move and she refused.

  • The Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving her seat to a white man.

  • Little Rock 9

    The little rock 9 were 9 African American teenagers who wanted to go to a high school but it was not desegregated yet.

  • The Greensboro Four

    The The Greensboro Four had Sit-Ins at restaurants and other public places where blacks were not allowed and had peaceful protest and were not served.

  • The Freedom Ride

    The Freedom Rides were blacks who rode into the segregated south to protest and some were arrested for violating Jim Crow Laws.

  • “Bloody Sunday”- March from Selma, AL to Montgomery, AL (1965)

  • March on Washington

    People gathered in Washington and marched about "Jobs and Freedom".

  • Martin Luther King"I Have a Dream" speech

    Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights leader and had a speech to deliver about how he hopes and wishes that one day men and women will realize all men are equal.

  • 24th Amendment

    The 24th Amendment abolishes poll tax, which was a way to keep African Americans from voting in elections.

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Makes it easier for blacks to vote

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    Prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.

  • Martin Luther King assassinated

    Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at 39.