Ruby Bridges and Civil Rights by Mariel Montes

By Mariel M
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    Ruby Bridges time line

  • U.S Supreme Court bans segregation in public schools

  • Ruby was born in Mississippi

  • Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white person

    An African-American a women arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white person. Bus boycott lounched in Montgomery, Alabama.

  • the Montgomery buses desagrate

    After more than a year if boycotting the buses and a legel fight, the Montgomery buses desagrate.

  • Federal court for desegregration of schools in the South

  • January Ruby had a first day at Frantz Elementary School for whites in New Orleans

  • Freedom rides bigin from Washinton, D.C

    Groups of black and white people ride buses through the South to change segregatetion.

  • Police arrest Civil Rights Leader

    Police arrest Civil Rights Leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr and other ministers demontrating in Birmingham, Alabama, then turn fire hoses and police dogs on the marchers.

  • Presidente John F Kennedy calls for for Civil Rights Act

  • Presiden John F Kennedy 1961-1963, shot dead

  • The Problem We All Live With

    Norman Rockwell´s painting published.

  • President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964

  • Black Nationalist Leader Malcolm X is murdered

  • Civil Rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated

    Civil Rights Leader the Rev. Matin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, unleashing violence in more than 100 cities.

  • The story of Ruby Bridges is published