A civil rights timeline

  • plessy v.ferguson

    plessy v.ferguson

    supreme curt case - separate but equal-public faculties
  • Naacp

    Naacp

    A organization at protect black right
  • race riots

    race riots

    business burn in Detroit
  • black panthers

    black panthers

    civil rigths group with violence
  • malcom x

    malcom x

    head of the black panthers
  • Emmet till

    Emmet till

    black teen lynched for talk to a white girl
  • brown v. board of education of Topeka

    brown v. board of education of Topeka

    curt case got rid of segregated school
  • Montgomery bus boycott

    Montgomery bus boycott

    Rosa parks refused to give up her seat on a bus-bus-cotts
  • rosa parks

    rosa parks

    she was arrested for not giving up her sat
  • little rock schools integration

    little rock schools integration

    white mob tried to prevent 9 blacks from entering
  • the sit ins

    the sit ins

    four black mail satr at a all white lunch counter
  • freedom rides

    freedom rides

    black protesters took bus rides and use white bathrooms
  • march on Washington

    march on Washington

    200k march from Lincoln memorial MLK speech
  • march on Birmingham albabama

    march on Birmingham albabama

    MLK was arrested
  • 24 amendment

    24 amendment

    abolished poll tax
  • civil rights act

    civil rights act

    made public segregation illlegal
  • De jure vs. De Facto segregation

    De jure vs. De Facto segregation

    de jure: by law
    de pacto:by custom
    people are segregated by laws of the state in De Jure
    people are segregated by customs and nationality De Facto
  • voting rights

    voting rights

    protester attacked to get rid of literacy test to vote
  • march from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights

    march from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights

    march to get black folk registered
  • thurgood marshall

    thurgood marshall

    lawer for brown vs board
  • martin lather king jr

    martin lather king jr

    black civil rights