Savannah Civil Rights Timeline

By SavC4
  • Advocates for Black Nationalism

    Advocates for Black Nationalism

  • Congress of Racial Equality founded

    Congress of Racial Equality founded

  • Jackie Robinson Hired to the Brooklyn Dodgers

    Jackie Robinson Hired to the Brooklyn Dodgers

  • Executive Order 9981

    Executive Order 9981

    -Segregation: the enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment.
    -On buses African Americans were forced to stand at the back of the bus and to give up their seat to a White American if told to give up their seat.
  • Brown V. Board of Education Ruling

    Brown V. Board of Education Ruling

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964

    -Plessy v. Ferguson: 1896 case that determined separate but equal facilities.
    -Originally Kennedy's idea, President Johnson was able to get passed.
    -Civil Rights act banned discrimination.
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • First Lunch Counter Sit-Ins

    First Lunch Counter Sit-Ins

    -Sit-in: Sitting in a public facility as a means of peaceful protesting.
    -Jim Crow Laws: Laws that made racial segregation okay in the south.
    - African American college kids went into woolsworth everyday.
    -These students were often atacked by white customers and store customers.
  • Integration of Central High School

    Integration of Central High School

  • Freedom Rides

    Freedom Rides

  • Birmingham Campaign: Letter from a Birmingham Jail

    Birmingham Campaign: Letter from a Birmingham Jail

    SCLC-
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

  • Watts Riot

    Watts Riot

  • Black Panther Party Founded

    Black Panther Party Founded

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

  • Swann v Charlotte- Mecklenberg Board of Education

    Swann v Charlotte- Mecklenberg Board of Education

  • Regents of the University of California v. Bakke Day