Civil Rights Timeline

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    Brown vs. Board of Education

    Court Case that banned segregation in the public schools
  • Emmett Till

    Emmett Till

    14 year old boy who was kidnapped and murdered after he was accused of whistling at white woman.
  • Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus.
  • The Little Rock Nine and School Integration

    The Little Rock Nine and School Integration

    The Little Rock Nine were nine African American students who became the first to desegregate Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas.
  • Greensboro Woolworth's Sit-ins

    Greensboro Woolworth's Sit-ins

    began on February 1 at the F.W. Woolworth lunch counter in North Carolina.
  • MLK’s Letter From Birmingham Jail

    MLK’s Letter From Birmingham Jail

    defends the strategy of nonviolent direct action to combat segregation.
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington

    a massive, peaceful civil rights protest held on August 28, 1963, in Washington, D.C. Over 250,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to advocate for civil rights legislation, economic justice, voting rights, and integration.
  • birmingham baptist church bombing

    birmingham baptist church bombing

    On September 15, 1963, Ku Klux Klan members bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four African American girls
  • 24th Amendment

    24th Amendment

    The 24th Amendment, makes it illegal to charge a tax or any fees as a condition for voting in federal elections. It abolished poll taxes, which were used to prevent low-income, predominantly Black citizens from voting, thereby ensuring fairer access to federal elections.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964

    ended legal segregation (Jim Crow laws) and outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Voting Rights Act of 1965

    To eliminate legal, state-level obstacles such as literacy tests, poll taxes, and intimidation that prevented African Americans and other minorities from exercising their right to vote.
  • “Bloody Sunday”/Selma to Montgomery March

    “Bloody Sunday”/Selma to Montgomery March

    roughly 600 civil rights marchers walking from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to demand voting rights were brutally attacked by state troopers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge
  • Loving v. Virginia

    Loving v. Virginia

    unanimously ruled 9-0 that state bans on interracial marriage were unconstitutional
  • Assassination of MLK Jr.

    Assassination of MLK Jr.

    Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

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