civil rights timeline

  • Creation of the NAACP

    Creation of the NAACP
  • Scottsboro Boys

    Scottsboro Boys
  • Jackie Robinson Breaks the Color Barrier

    Jackie Robinson Breaks the Color Barrier
    This is the first African American to be in the white major leagues
  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    Brown vs. Board of Education
    this was the court case to end school segregation in the country
  • The Murder of Emmet Till

    The Murder of Emmet Till
    This event is what ignited the colored people to start protesting as his mother called him the sacrificial lamb.
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott
    Since Rosa parks had been arrested for not giving up her seat in the colored section of the bus for a white man they started walking everywhere for a little over a year
  • Little Rock 9

    Little Rock 9
    they were the kids to desegregate white high schools so colored kids could get a better education
  • Ruby Bridges desegregate elementary school in New Orleans

    Ruby Bridges desegregate elementary school in New Orleans
    this little girl was going into a white school to desegregate schools for children in the elementary schools
  • Letter from a Birmingham Jail

    Letter from a Birmingham Jail
    this was a letter to the clergyman that had betrayed Martin Luther King Jr. who also wrote the letter
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • Assassination of Malcolm X

    Assassination of Malcolm X
  • Creation of the Black Panthers

    Creation of the Black Panthers
  • Thurgood Marshall Named Supreme Court Justice

    Thurgood Marshall Named Supreme Court Justice
  • Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Election of Barack Obama

    Election of Barack Obama