Civil Rights Timeline

  • Brown vs. Board of education

    Brown vs. Board of education

    This case was trying to end segregated schools.
    Ended segregation in schools
  • Emmett Till Murder

    Emmett Till Murder

    Emmett was killed since he flirted with a white woman.
    It shows how racist they were
  • Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Protesting against segregation in the Transit system.
    It was a foundational event in the civil rights movement
  • The Little Rock Nine and Integration

    The Little Rock Nine and Integration

    A group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School.
    Allowed them to go to a white school
  • Greensboro Woolworth's Sit-ins

    Greensboro Woolworth's Sit-ins

    Non violent protest.
    Led to the F. W. Woolworth Company department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation
  • Freedom Rides

    Freedom Rides

    Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses.
    Which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.
  • MLK’s Letter From Birmingham Jail

    MLK’s Letter From Birmingham Jail

    Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a letter in Birmingham Jail
    Letter that addresses racial segregation and all the injustices to the black American society.
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington

    March on Washington for jobs and freedom.
    Largest gathering for civil rights at the time
  • Birmingham Baptist Church Bombing

    Birmingham Baptist Church Bombing

    A white supremacist terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.
    Led to a turning point in the civil rights movement
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin.
    Outlawed discrimination
  • 24th Amendment

    24th Amendment

    Prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.
    It gave African Americans more rights and freedoms
  • “Bloody Sunday”/Selma to Montgomery March

    “Bloody Sunday”/Selma to Montgomery March

    Lewis and SCLC's Hosea Williams led the Selma to Montgomery March for voting rights.
    Marching for voting rights
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Voting Rights Act of 1965

    The Act sought to secure the right to vote for racial minorities throughout the country.
    Prohibited racial discrimination in voting
  • Loving v. Virginia

    Loving v. Virginia

    A White and mixed African American ad Native American ancestry got arrested for interracial marriage.
    Court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the 14th amendment equal protection clause

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