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.
  • Union “guy” Buford Jr.

    Union “guy” Buford Jr.

    Became the first black American to visit space.
  • Sculpture of MLK

    Sculpture of MLK

    A bronze head and shoulders statue of MLK.
  • Rally at the national mall

    Rally at the national mall

    Hundreds of thousands of black men rally at the national mall.
  • 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.
  • Colin Powell

    Colin Powell

    Appointed the first black Secretary of State.
  • Barack Obama

    Barack Obama

    Nations first black American to lead the nation.