modern civil rights timeline

By ShelbyLCombs

  • Creation of the NAACP

    The NAACP was established in February 1909 in New York City by an interracial group of activists, partially in response to the 1908 Springfield race riot in Illinois.

  • scottsboro boys

    nine African American teenagers were accused of raping two white women aboard a Southern Railroad freight train in northern Alabama.

  • Jackie Robinson Breaks the Color Barrier

    After a successful season with the minor league Montreal Royals in 1946, Robinson officially broke the major league color line

  • The Murder of Emmitt Till

    14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier.

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    the first large-scale U.S. demonstration against segregation. Four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested and fined for refusing to yield her bus seat to a white

  • The Little Rock 9

    The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine black students who enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas

  • Ruby Bridges desegregate elementary school in New Orleans

    White Mobs Violently Riot Against Six-Year-Old Ruby Bridges Integrating Elementary School

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    President John Kennedy asked Congress for a comprehensive civil rights bill,

  • Letter from a Birmingham Jail

    "Letter from Birmingham City Jail" and "The Negro Is Your Brother", is an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Assassination of Malcolm X

    Throughout 1964, his conflict with the Nation of Islam intensified, and he was repeatedly sent death threats.

  • Creation of the Black Panthers

    Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party

  • Thurgood Marshall Named Supreme Court Justice

    Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African American to be confirmed as a Supreme Court justice.

  • Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Martin Luther King, Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

  • Election of Barack Obama

    In 2008, he was nominated by the Democratic Party for president a year after beginning his campaign,