Civil rights timeline fr

14th amendment

Jul 9, 1868

Protects citizens rights and game garuntees equal protection

Plessy v Ferguson

May 18, 1896

Separate but equal.

Brown v Board of education

May 17, 1954

Supreme Court ruling that separating children in public schools on bias of race was unconstitutional.

Integrating schools

May 17, 1954

Tied to the 14th amendment

Emmett Till Murder

Jun 28, 1955

killed for accused of whistling at a white women.

Vietnam war

Nov 1, 1955

War in Vietnam

Little Rock Nine

Sep 14, 1957

African americans arrived at central high school at a white school

Woolworths sit in

Feb 1, 1960

4 African American college students sat down at a lunch counter and request was refused.

Freedom rider

May 4, 1961

rode interstate buses into segregated southern United States.

Albany movement

Nov 17, 1961

Aimed to end all forms of racial segregation in the city.

Birmingham

May 2, 1963

1000 black Americans peacefully protested racial segregation.

MLK speech

Aug 28, 1963

I have a dream speech.

March on Washington

Aug 28, 1963

to advocate for civil rights and economic rights of African Americans.

16th street church bombing

Sep 15, 1963

KKK bombed 4 girls during sunday services.

JFK assassination

Sep 22, 1963

president was killed.

Civil rights act 1964

Jul 2, 1964

Prohibited discrimination in public places

Malcom X assasination

Feb 21, 1965

was shot inside harlems Audubon Balleron by 3 men of the nation Islam.

Selma march

Mar 7, 1965

People gathered to march to ensure that African Americans could vote.

Bloody Sunday

Jul 26, 1965

Attacked hundreds of civil rights activists beginning a march from Selma.

Loving v Virginia

Jun 12, 1967

Unanimous 9-0 decision in favor of the lovings

Assasination of Martin L king JR

Apr 4, 1968

MLK shot at hotel

Fair housing act

Apr 11, 1968

Prohibits discrimination in the sale/ financing.

Union “guy” Buford Jr.

Aug 30, 1983

Became the first black American to visit space.

Sculpture of MLK

Jan 16, 1986

A bronze head and shoulders statue of MLK.

Rally at the national mall

Oct 16, 1995

Hundreds of thousands of black men rally at the national mall.

Bus Boycott

Dec 5, 1995

Rosa Parks sat on the back of the bus.

Million women march

Oct 25, 1997

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

Colin Powell

Jan 20, 2001

Appointed the first black Secretary of State.

Barack Obama

Sep 4, 2008

Nations first black American to lead the nation.