Civil Rights Timeline

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    1941, Freedom Rides

    a series of political protests against segregation by Blacks and whites who rode buses together through the American South in 1961
  • Brown v. Board Of Education

    Brown v. Board Of Education
    a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality
  • Emmett Till Murder

    Emmett Till Murder
    Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman
  • Rosa Parks & Montgomery bus boycott

    Rosa Parks & Montgomery bus boycott
    The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama
  • The Little Rock Nine

    The Little Rock Nine
    group of African American high-school students who challenged racial segregation in the public schools of Little Rock, Arkansas.
  • Greensboro Woolworth's Sit in

    Greensboro Woolworth's Sit in
    The Greensboro Sit-Ins were non-violent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina. The Greensboro Sit-Ins were non-violent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina
  • MLK's Letter from Birmingham

    MLK's Letter from Birmingham
    Open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Birmingham Baptist

    Birmingham Baptist
    Four members of a local Ku Klux Klan chapter planted 19 sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device beneath the steps located on the east side of the church.
  • March On Washington

    March On Washington
    March in Washington for Jobs and Freedom, political demonstration held in Washington, D.C., in 1963 by civil rights leaders to protest racial discrimination and to show support for major civil rights legislation that was pending in Congress
  • 24th Amendment

    24th Amendment
    24th amendment outlawing the poll tax as a voting requirement in federal elections, by a vote of 295 to 86. At the time, five states maintained poll taxes which disproportionately affected African-American voters: Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Texas.
  • Civil Rights Acts of 1964

    Civil Rights Acts of 1964
    The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing.
  • Bloody Sunday

    Bloody Sunday
    The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery.
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Voting Rights Act of 1965
    Outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.
  • Loving v Virginia

    Loving v Virginia
    Landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution