Civil Rights Timeline

By CarsonLevick
  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson

    Legalized segregation-Separate but equal
  • National Association for the Advancement of colored people

    National Association for the Advancement of colored people

    Started up to end segregation
  • Thurgood Marshall

    Thurgood Marshall

    Lawyer for the NAACP
  • The sit-ins

    The sit-ins

    Core did the 1st peaceful sit-in protest
  • Little Rock school integration

    Little Rock school integration

    School desegregation crisis
  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    School desegregation
  • Emmett Till

    Emmett Till

    Lynched in Mississippi
  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks

    Bus protest
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    1 year African Americans stopped riding Buses
  • Freedom Rides

    Freedom Rides

    Protesting segregation on intrastate bus routes
  • March on Birmingham,Alabama

    March on Birmingham,Alabama

    Desegregate public facilities
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington

    March to Washington for dream of Equality
  • Malcolm X

    Malcolm X

    Racial pride-preacher
  • 24th Amendment

    24th Amendment

    Eliminated poll tax
  • March from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights

    March from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights

    Protect voters rights
  • Civil Rights Act

    Civil Rights Act

    prohibit discrimination of race ,religion,gender
  • De jure vs.De Facto segregation

    De jure vs.De Facto segregation

    Segregation by law or by custom
  • Race riots

    Race riots

    urban violence
  • Voting rights act of 1965

    Voting rights act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy tests for colored people wanting to vote
  • Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. Gandhi/Thoreau/Randolph

    Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. Gandhi/Thoreau/Randolph

    MLK 1968 Assassinated