Civil Rights Timeline

By malone108557@indianola.k12.ia.us
  • Brown V. Board of Education Ruling

    Brown V. Board of Education Ruling

    Thurgood Marshall argued for Brown in the case. NAACP's lawyer.
    The case stayed in the supreme court for a year and a half. Brown wins the case. Linda Brown wanted to go to a white school that was closer to her home. Case was argued in front of the warren court.
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Boycott & Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks was a black women who basically set the boycott into motion. The boycott was to help the blacks end segregation on buses.
  • Sit-ins

    Sit-ins

    Jim crow laws & sit ins. Blacks an whites were not allowed to eat at the same places, the blacks wanted to put an end to that.
  • Freedom rides

    Freedom rides

    Civil disobedience.
  • Letter from Birmingham Jail

    Letter from Birmingham Jail

    SCLC.
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington

    NAACP.
  • Voting rights act of 1965

    Voting rights act of 1965

    disenfranchise.