Timeline: Ethan Civil Rights Timeline

Apr 14, 1942

Congress of Racial Equality Founded

Jun 14, 1945

Dodgers Hire Jackie Robinson

Jul 26, 1948

Executive Order 9981

May 17, 1954

Brown VS board of Education Ruling

Dec 1, 1955

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Sep 4, 1957

Integration of Central High School

Feb 1, 1960

The First Lunch Sit-Ins

-Jim Crow Laws & Sit-Ins: Jim Crow laws are laws made to segregate black people. Sit-ins are a form of protest where people don't leave an area until there demands are met.
- The SNCC was involved with these sit-ins.
-The Sit-ins transformed the segregated South and change the civil rights movement.

Jun 15, 1961

Freedom Rides

-Civil Disobedience: A peaceful Protest against something the protester Disagrees with
-C.O.R.E. was involved with organizing these freedom rides
-C.O.R.E. ended up abandoning the Freedom Rides, but SNCC continued them

May 10, 1963

The Birmingham Campaign

-SCLC: Southern Christian Leadership Conference, is an African American Civil Rights Organization.
-They had revealed what lengths that southerners would go to maintain Segregation.
-On May 10th, They were finally able to end segregation in public areas in Birmingham.

Jun 17, 1963

March on Washington

Jul 2, 1964

The civil Rights Act of 1964

Jul 14, 1964

Advocates for Black Nationalism

Aug 1, 1965

Voting Rights Act of 1965

-Disenfranchise: Depriving someone of the right to vote
-Congress Passed the voting rights of 1965
-African Americans got the right to vote because of this Act

Aug 7, 1965