Civil Rights Timeline (Struggle 4 Equality)

By CidRod60

  • Jim Crow Laws take affect

    The Jim Crow laws prevented African Americans to vote, on the basis of racial-color

  • NAACP is founded

  • After WWI the African American Veterans fought for equality

  • Brown V. Board Supreme Court Case ends (9-0)

  • Civil Rights Movement begins

    While not exact, it stared mid-1955, so, I took it literally

  • Rosa Parks, Incarerated

  • Period: to

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    The African American population boycott the bus due to Rosa Parks getting Incarerated, for not giving up her seat.

  • SCLC founded

  • Period: to

    Little Rock Nine, 101st Airborne Division sent to escort LRN home and to school

  • CORE started Freedom Rides

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964 Passes

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965