Civil Rights timeline

  • Broen vs the Board of education

    Linda Browns parents sued the Topeka Board of education because it wouldnt let her attend a Topeka school.
  • Dr.MLKJ

    A Baptist Minister , Helps lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott and becomes a Civil Rights leader.
  • Bus Boycott

    Rosa parks refusing to give up her seat to a white man got arrested. When people heard of the arrest a group of black Women made flyers saying to boycott the busses.
  • Geensboro Lunch Coubter Sit in

    Woolworths lost 1/3 of its buisness and desegregated all of its restaurants (nationally).
  • March on Washinton

    Dr.King Delivers "I Have A Dream" speech
    about 200,000 people of all races gather on "The Mall" in Washington D.C., to protest discrimination.
  • Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing

    Four African American Girls were killed in a bombing of the Sicteenth Street Baptist Church by the KKK because it was a meeting place for Civil Rights activists.
  • Malcolm X

    Malcolm was a member of the Nation of Islam
    He favored Seperation from whites
    Assasinated Febuary 21, 1965
  • Civil Rights March

    Over 600 people mostly African AMerican Went off to march from Brown Chapel AME Church to the State Capital of Montgomery.
  • Dr. King Assassination

    Dr. King was shot to death by James Earl in Memphis, Tennessee.