civil rights timeline

By drew_murphy07

  • Creation of the NAACP

    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

  • Scottsboro Boys

    9 african american men who where accusessed of rape

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    segregation in schools gone kinda

  • The Murder of Emmitt Till

    a young man from chicago went to Mississippi and was killed

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    protest where no African American people rode the bus from 1955 to 1956

  • The Little Rock 9

    a group of nine students who went to Central High School

  • Ruby Bridges desegregate elementary school in New Orleans

    a little 9 year old girl well desegergateed a elementary school in now orleans

  • Letter from a Birmingham Jail

    Dr. King wrote a letter while in jail

  • Assassination of Malcolm X

    Malcolm X was killed he was shot 21 times

  • Creation of the Black Panthers

    2 black men make the black panters (not the marvel movie

  • Thurgood Marshall Named Supreme Court Justice

    Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

  • Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Martin Luther King died he was shot at a hotel

  • Jackie Robinson Breaks the Color Barrier

    Jackie robinson plays for the MLB

  • Election of Barack Obama

    First black president

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    They made the Civil Rights Act