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Civil Rights Timeline

  • Tuskigee Institute created

    Tuskigee Institute created

    This was an institution which taught useful/essential skills. It was the first instutution which taught higher level education to African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement.
  • Plessy vs Ferguson

    Plessy vs Ferguson

    This was a court case which held that African Americans were "seperate but equal" which created racial segregation. This had a strong impact on the next several decades of the Civil Rights Movement in that it stimulated protests and movements to overturn this court decision.
  • NAACP Formed

    NAACP Formed

    This was an organization created that fought for African Americans getting jobs, voting, education, and more to oppose the segregation during the Civil Rights Movement.
  • 19th Ammendment

    19th Ammendment

    An ammendement passed where voting would not be prevented based upon gender which was a major milestone for Women's Rights during the Civil Rights Movement.
  • Brown vs Board of Education

    Brown vs Board of Education

    This was a court case which eventually deemd that it was not constitutional to have colored people in a different school from white people. This was a major step in the direction to end segregation.
  • Emmet Till killed

    Emmet Till killed

    Emmet Till was murdered in Mississippi which sparked many African Americans who had gone through violence for a long period of time to rise up and resist the segregation. Emmet Till was known as an icon as he served as an inspiration to the African American community.
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Due to Rosa Parks being arrested for not giving up her bus seat, many African Americans refused to ride on a segregated bus which was a major revolt in the Civil Rights Era to end segregation.
  • Little Rock 9

    Little Rock 9

    A group of 9 African Americnas were not allowed to attent a high school they enrolled in due to segregation so they challenged the school making it an integeral part to the fight for equality.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

    Civil Rights Act of 1957

    This was passed to ensure that anyone who violated the right for citezens to vote would be prosecuted which was signfiicant in the suffrage sector of the Civil Rights Movement.
  • SNCC Formed

    SNCC Formed

    This student group was designed to give young African Americans a bigger voice in the civil rights movement which ended up becoming a radical branch and key part against segregation.
  • Freedom Riders

    Freedom Riders

    People who rode buses into the South to revolt against the lack of enforcement of policies which deemed segregated buses unconstitutional. This lead to violence which called national involvement to change things.
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington

    This was a protest in the Capital to stand for Civil Rights for minorities which led to the government under pressure and forced to draw attention to the segregation.
  • 24th Ammendment

    24th Ammendment

    This ammendment created a ban on taxes for polls of a federal election which impacted the Civil Rights Movement by ending Jim Crow laws which had a tax on African Americans to vote.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964

    This ended discrimination of all sorts based upon skin color, race, religion, or gender which accomplished the goal of the Civil Rights Movement.
  • March from Selma

    March from Selma

    Protests where African Americans demanded their right to vote against segregationists.
  • Voting Rights Act

    Voting Rights Act

    Based upon the March at Selma, this act was passed by Johnson to ensure that there were no prohibitions to voting.
  • Black Panthers

    Black Panthers

    An organization which emphasized African American identity such as pride and self determination which influcenced Civil Rights aspects of popular culture and eudcation.
  • Thurgood Marshall Appointed

    Thurgood Marshall Appointed

    Marshall was appointed to Supreme Court as the first African American which was a symbol of the progress of the Civil Rights Movement.
  • American Indian Movement

    American Indian Movement

    A movement founded in order to help conditions of Native Americans in urbanized areas by restoring their tribal values in the areas.
  • MLK Asassinated

    MLK Asassinated

    MLK was assasinated on this day being remembered as one of the most influential spoksmen of the Civil Rights Movement.