Civil Rights Timeline By ruksaar Mar 7, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation Mar 7, 1865 President Lincoln assasinated Mar 7, 1877 Jim Crow Laws Mar 7, 1909 NAACP founded Mar 7, 1945 'Great Migration' Mar 7, 1947 Jackie Robinson breaks major league barrier Mar 7, 1948 Truman Executive orders - ended segregation in federal workforce and military Mar 7, 1950 Brown VS Board of Education Mar 7, 1954 Brown VS Board of Education enforced Mar 7, 1955 Rosa Parks bus protest Mar 7, 1955 Emit Till killed Mar 7, 1957 Failed Civil Rights Bill by Eisenhower Mar 7, 1957 Creation of the Civil Rights Commission Mar 7, 1957 SCLC MLK Mar 7, 1960 Martin Luther King released from Atlanta Jail Mar 7, 1960 JFK aimed to win black vote and won Mar 7, 1961 Freedom rides Mar 7, 1963 March on Washinton - 'I have a dream speech' Mar 7, 1964 Economic Opportunity Act Mar 7, 1964 Civil Rights Act Mar 7, 1965 Johnson's Great Society Mar 7, 1965 Voting Rights Act Mar 7, 1965 SELMA march Mar 7, 1966 Fair Housing Act Mar 7, 1968 Martin Luther King death Mar 7, 1969 Philidelphia plan Mar 7, 1970 Mexico olympics Mar 7, 1981 Ronald Reagan first inagural addess Mar 7, 2014 National Centre for Civil and Human Rights opened in Atlanta Mar 7, 2015 Black Lives Matter