Civil rights timeline fr

  • 14th amendment

    14th amendment
    Protects citizens rights and game garuntees equal protection
  • Plessy v Ferguson

    Plessy v Ferguson
    Separate but equal.
  • Brown v Board of education

    Brown v Board of education
    Supreme Court ruling that separating children in public schools on bias of race was unconstitutional.
  • Integrating schools

    Integrating schools
    Tied to the 14th amendment
  • Emmett Till Murder

    Emmett Till Murder
    killed for accused of whistling at a white women.
  • Vietnam war

    Vietnam war
    War in Vietnam
  • Little Rock Nine

    Little Rock Nine
    African americans arrived at central high school at a white school
  • Woolworths sit in

    Woolworths sit in
    4 African American college students sat down at a lunch counter and request was refused.
  • Freedom rider

    Freedom rider
    rode interstate buses into segregated southern United States.
  • Albany movement

    Albany movement
    Aimed to end all forms of racial segregation in the city.
  • Birmingham

    Birmingham
    1000 black Americans peacefully protested racial segregation.
  • MLK speech

    MLK speech
    I have a dream speech.
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington
    to advocate for civil rights and economic rights of African Americans.
  • 16th street church bombing

    16th street church bombing
    KKK bombed 4 girls during sunday services.
  • JFK assassination

    JFK assassination
    president was killed.
  • Civil rights act 1964

    Civil rights act 1964
    Prohibited discrimination in public places
  • Malcom X assasination

    Malcom X assasination
    was shot inside harlems Audubon Balleron by 3 men of the nation Islam.
  • Selma march

    Selma march
    People gathered to march to ensure that African Americans could vote.
  • Bloody Sunday

    Bloody Sunday
    Attacked hundreds of civil rights activists beginning a march from Selma.
  • Loving v Virginia

    Loving v Virginia
    Unanimous 9-0 decision in favor of the lovings
  • Assasination of Martin L king JR

    Assasination of Martin L king JR
    MLK shot at hotel
  • Fair housing act

    Fair housing act
    Prohibits discrimination in the sale/ financing.
  • Sculpture of MLK

    Sculpture of MLK
    A bronze head and shoulders statue of MLK.
  • Bus Boycott

    Bus Boycott
    Rosa Parks sat on the back of the bus.
  • Million women march

    Million women march
    Black women respond to the million march with a gathering of their own.