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Civil Rights Timeline

  • Tuskegee Institute Created

    Tuskegee Institute Created

    Founded by Booker T Washington it was built to train African Americans agriculture and industry and promote the economic progress of his race. His drive and vision built Tuskegee into a major African-American presence and place of learning.
  • Plessy vs Ferguson

    Plessy vs Ferguson

    This was a landmark decision by the supreme court which help the constitutional values of racial segregation in public places, this led to the saying "Separate but Equal". This case brought into the question of whether racial segregation is constitutional.
  • NAACP Created

    NAACP Created

    Founded due to a direct response to the violence of African Americans around the country. Their mission was to ensure the social equality of minority group citizens of United States. This group included W.E.B DuBois and Ida B Wells. If it weren't for the NAACP the court case Brown vs Board of Education wouldn't have been won
  • Executive order 9981

    Executive order 9981

    President Harry Truman passes executive order 9981 which abolished the discrimination of color race and natural origin which also led to the end of segregation of forces in North Korea
  • Brown vs Board of Education

    Brown vs Board of Education

    A mix of five cases made into one, the supreme court ruled that it is unconstitutional for U.S states establish racial segregation in public schools which led to many African American student attending all white schools
  • Emmet Till's Death

    Emmet Till's Death

    Emmet Till was lynched in 1955 for being accused for flirting with a white girl in a grocery store, and his death brought attention to the civil rights movement after Jet magazine published his body in a casket.
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    The boycott was a political protest campaign against racial segregation in the bus transit stations. Rosa Parks is a big monument for this movement for she prompted this movement
  • SLCC Formed

    SLCC Formed

    The SLCC Formed when sixty black pastors and civil rights protester's, including Martin Luther King Jr met in Atlanta to host non-violent pretest against racial discrimination. The SCLC assisted black Americans in registering to vote, it opened citizenship schools, but above all it preached the use of non-violence in all campaigns associated with its name
  • Little Rock 9

    Little Rock 9

    9 black students are blocked from going to little rock central high school, but on the way they are continued to be harassed, even with federal troops. This became an integral part for racial equality when they enrolled in a all white high school for they challenged the unfair system
  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

    Civil Rights Act of 1957

    This act was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the U.S and this act protected voter acts and allowed federal prosecution for those who suppress another ones vote.
  • Greensboro N.C. sit-ins

    Greensboro N.C. sit-ins

    Green Borough sit in were acts of many non-violent protests against segregated lunch counters, and due to the The Greensboro Four—Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil success led to the formation of the SNCC which led to a larger sit in movement.
  • SNCC Formed

    SNCC Formed

    formed in April 1960 at a conference at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, attended by 126 student delegates which formed to give younger black people a voice in the civil rights movement, and would later become the movements more radical branches.
  • Freedom Riders

    Freedom Riders

    The freedom Riders took bus rides around the southern parts to protest segregated buses and even used white only restrooms. Sadly many of the buses saw horrible violence from white protesters which drew international attention.
  • March on Washington – “I have a Dream Speech”

    March on Washington – “I have a Dream Speech”

    Around 250,000 people marched with Martin Luther King to give his I have a dream speech, for this speech led helped pave the way for both the ratification of the Twenty-fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964

    President Lyndon B Johnson signed the Civil rights act of 1964 which banned employment discrimination based of race, color, sex, and national origin. This act helped form the EEOC which prevented workspace discrimination
  • March From Selma Alabama

    March From Selma Alabama

    In the Selma to Montgomery March, around 600 civil rights marchers walk to Selma, Alabama to Montgomery in which they were beaten brutally by officers, but this event these events became a landmark in the American civil rights movement and directly led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Voting Rights Act of 1965

    President Johnson signed the act in 1965 which prevented the use of literacy as voting requirements. This act greatly impacted the status of African Americans
  • Cesar Chavez (Civil Rights not birth)

    Cesar Chavez (Civil Rights not birth)

    Was an American Labor work leader who is known for his efforts to gain better working conditions for the thousands of workers who labored on farms for low wages and under severe conditions. As a result he found the National Farm Workers Association
  • Black Panthers

    Black Panthers

    This was a black power organization which were founded by college students and huey Peal Newton who fought against police brutality and it paved the way for the ideology of Black nationalism
  • MLK's Death

    MLK's Death

    Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated on the balcony of his hotel room, but his death led to an outrage in the African American community and helped speed the way for an equal housing bill