Civil rights timeline

By marilyfranco_45

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    who was involved: Oliver Brown- Father of linda Brown
    This took place in South Carolina, Virginia, Delaware District of Columbia
    The cause of this is because an overturn Plessy vs Ferguson

  • Murder of Emmett Till

    Roy Bryant J.W. - Milam were involved
    This took place in Drew, Missippi
    The cause of this was that they beat mutialted him before shooting him in the head sinking his body in the Tallahatchie River.

  • Rosa Parks and the bus Boycott

    This took place in Montgomery, Alabama
    She rejected a bus drivers order to leave a row of four seats in the "colored" sections

  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference

    This took place in Ebenezer Baptist church in Atlana
    It was soon creased to mount giant demolished and confirmed itself to smaller campings, predominantly in the south.

  • The Little Rock 9

    This took place in the Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas
    Nine African American students arrived at a school that did not accept colored people

  • Greensboro Sit ins

    This took place in Greensboro, North Carolina
    More than two thousand African Americans of all ages and classes silently marched to downtown Greensboro to show their dedication to achieving racial equality.