Civil rights timeline

  • CORE

    CORE

    MLK worked with CORE throughout the 1950's and in to the 1960'. CORE memebers would give advice and support during the bus boycott's.
  • Terror Spree

    If black residents bought a home in a white-neighbourhood then white residents would send packages of dynamite to their door. The whites would not get in trouble and made the nineteenth century dark.
  • Brown v Board Of Education

    Brown v Board Of Education

    Ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.
  • Emmett Till

    Emmett Till

    When Emmett got killed Emmett’s mom held many funerals and got people to be more active to stop the violence.
  • The Montgomery Boycott

    The Montgomery Boycott

    The movement started when rosa parks refused to give up her seat,the black community began the protest for a month. Resulted in the Supreme Court ruling segregation on public buses unconstitutional.
  • NAACP

    NAACP

    In 1953, the fair announced that African Americans could attend the fair on any day, but could only fully participate in the fair's enjoyments on Negro Achievement Day. Juanita Craft, NAACP Youth Council advisor for the Dallas branch, spearheaded a movement to end discrimination at the fair so that any person of any race could participate on any day they chose.
  • Mansfield Criswell speech

    Mansfield Criswell made a speech about how black people did not posses the same kind of sould before God that white people had. He suggested isolation and colored church. The Clergy’s of Dallas felt hurt and shocked, thought that religion has no place for discrimination.
  • Little Rock Nine

    Little Rock Nine

    Became an integral part of the fight for equal opportunity in American education.
  • The Southern Christian Leadership Conference

    The Southern Christian Leadership Conference

    An African-American civil rights organization based in Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Kennedy's Election

    Kennedy's Election

    When Kennedy was elected (1960) it inspired a generation to accept responsibility for its government by taking political and social action.
  • Sit in

    Sit in

    In the 1960s a group of black students in dallas, took part in a sit in civil rights movement by sitting at an all whites table.
  • SNCC

    SNCC

    (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) were people who organized sit ins and took buses to the south where later buses were mandated to be desegregated and restaurant owners were given an option to go out of business or serve everyone
  • March On Washington

    March On Washington

    Millions of people went to protest on the Lincon Memorial. On this day MLK gave his famous "I have a dream" speech.
  • Civil Rights Act

    The year the great Civil Rights Act was passed, only 18 percent of whites claimed to have a friend who was black; today 86 percent say they do, while 87 percent of blacks assert they have white friends.
  • 24th amendment

    24th amendment

    Exercised the people constitutional rights to vote in elections
  • Selma to Montgomery

    Selma to Montgomery

    In 1965 thousands of people had a marches in the US state of Alabama.Their march from Selma to Montgomery, the capital, was a success, leading to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
  • Assassination of Malcom X

    Assassination of Malcom X

    While preparing a speech at the Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in the neighborhood of Washington Heights, Malcolm X was shot multiple times and killed.
  • George Floyd

    George Floyd

    George Floyd got murdered by policemen due to racism. This led to a lot of attention on social media. It was one of the events that provocked blm protests.
  • Duante wright

    Duante wright

    Duante wright was killed in Brooklyn on April 11,2021 by a police officer.
  • San Francisco

    San Francisco supervisors have backed the idea of paying reparations to Black people. As a result people are protesting. March 15, 2023