Civil Rights Visual Timeline

Women have the right to vote in all of Canada.

Period: 1945 to 2000

No one can be held in slavery in the United States.

Period: 1945 to 2000

Everyone has the right to live for free in Canada.

Period: 1945 to 2000

Segregated schools are made illegal in the United States under constitution.

1954

Oliver Brown stood up against the unfairness of the segregated schools.
Image from: http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/brownvboard/brownimages.html

Segregated busses are made illegal under the United States constitution.

1955

The Montgomery bus boycott forced the bus companies to treat blacks fairly or lose a large portion of customers and profit.
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The apartheid is dismantled in South Africa and blacks are treated fairly; they even win the election of 1994.

1994

After years of international boycotting and sanctions against South Africa change finally came about and the whites gave up their privileged place.
Image from: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/april-27-1994-south-africa-holds-its-first-free-election-after-end-apartheid/