Civil Rights Timeline

By chadjustinauld04

  • Plessy V Ferguson

    Plessy V Ferguson
    Plessy V Ferguson Extremely important Supreme Court case that upheld the "seperate but equal" Jim Crow law.

  • Congress of Racial Equality

    Congress of Racial Equality
    COREFounded in 1942, CORE was created wth the ultimate goal to change racists attitudes all around. They did this through sit ins and picket lines.

  • Jackie Robinson

    Jackie Robinson
    Jackie Jackie Robinson was the first black player drafted professonally to the Dodgers. Throughout his career, he paved the way through Civil Rights for black players behind him.

  • Sweatt V. Painter

    Sweatt V. Painter
    One of the first historical cases that actually questioned the "seperate but equal" law.

  • Brown V The Board of Education

    Brown V The Board of Education
    Brown Case in which the Supreme Court handed down the ruling, declaring that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal,”