civil rights timeline

By alexisdlr19

  • race riots break out

    after MLK death protesters rioted in Chicago and Detroit

  • brown v board of education

    the Supreme Court ruling ended segregation of public schools

  • rosa parks arrested

    parks arrest triggered the Montgomery bus boycott

  • Montgomery bus boycott begins

    the boycott led to the end of segregation on transportation services in Montgomery

  • Little Rock nine integrate central high schools

    president Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock to protect the " Little Rock nine"

  • sit in protest begin

    4 black college students do the first sit in in Greensboro , nc

  • freedom riders beaten

    the riders were attempting to integrate bus terminals in the south

  • James Meredith attended the university of Mississippi

    first black American to attend the school

  • march on Washington

    MLK delivered his " I have a dream" speech at this event

  • 16th street baptist church bombing

    4 girls were killed in Birmingham al

  • congress passed the civil rights act

    the law ended segregation of public places

  • 24th amendment ratified

    this amendment outlawed poll taxes

  • MLK assassinated

    james earl kiled MLK at the Lorraine motel in Memphis tn

  • bloody Sunday

    civil rights workers were beaten in selma, al by police