civil rights timeline

By dylanlicud

  • Brown vs. board of edication

    1. 2. 3.

  • Rosa parks arrested for refusing to move out of her bus seat

    1.rosa parks was tired and sitting in a front seat a white man came on the bus and she was told to move so he could sit down.
    2.she was arrested and started freedo riders

  • events at little rock arkansaw

    9 black students were stoped by state troops from going to a white school.the president sent in paratroopers tolet them into school safiely lots of riots occured.
    2.paratrropers.

  • Civil rights act of 1957

    1.president john d. Eisenhower.
    2.voting is fully equal.

  • Events at litttle rock arkansaw

    1. 9 black students were accepted in to a school.a lot of whites boycotted this. riots acoured Eisenhower sent in troops.
    2. paratroopers squadren

  • atack of freedom riders

    1. road on busses in the seats they wanted and refused to get up 2.

  • james marideth enrolls at ole miss

    1.the govonor stoodin his way so he couldnt enroll.
    2.sent introops to contain riot

  • the march on washington

    1.to protest and show people whats hapening.
    2.i have a dream

  • March on Washington

    to protest for black rights. and to show the american people what is really going on.
    2.i have a dream. by Martin Luther King jr.

  • Civil Rights Act Of 1964

    1.Linden Johnsen
    2.outlawed discriminationbased on race,gender,reigion

  • thurgood marshal first black supreme court justice

    1.layer and chief counsel for NAACP
    2.first time a black person got a major government potion.

  • Muhammad ali refusal after drafted

    muhammad ali just won the world heavy weight champion of the world and he was drafted by the U.S army. He Refused to go because of hisstance on the war. he was put in jail and because ofhow muchafigure he was people looked at it and questioned it.

  • medgar evers assasinated

    1.black civial rights leader
    2. he went around getting people to testifie the murder case.

  • Assasination of Martin Luther King Jr.

    1.on april 4th 1968 Martin Luther king jr. was in Memphis Tennessee and he walked out side his hotel window and was shot.
    2.people saw how bad the hostility between races/americans was and if things didnt change we would be in another civil war.