Timeline

Plessy V. Ferguson

May 18, 1896

The Supreme Court ruled separate, but equal

Brown V Board of Education

May 17, 1954

The Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation of schools was unconstitutional.

Emmett Till

Aug 28, 1955

The abduction and brutal murder of 14 year old Emmett Till emerging the civil rights movement.

Rosa Parks

Dec 1, 1955

By refusing to give up her seat Rosa Parks helped start the civil rights movement,

The Montgomery Bus Boycott

Dec 5, 1955

Civil Right's protest when African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama

Troops To Highschool

Sep 23, 1957

President Eisenhower sent troops to Central Highschool.

Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, David Richmond and Ezell Blair

Feb 1, 1960

Four black college students sat at a "whites only" lunch counter and refused to leave when denied service.

Freedom Riders

May 4, 1961

13 CORE Members traveled from Washington to New Orleans in a bus, through the way they used "whites only" restrooms.

Peaceful Protest

Apr 12, 1963

Martin Luther King is jailed for protesting in the most segregated city.

I Have A Dream

Aug 28, 1963

Martin Luther King introduced his famous "I Have A Dream" speech.

Voting

Jul 2, 1964

President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights law.

Peaceful Protest Attacked

Mar 7, 1965

Alabama state troopers and local police attacked peaceful protesters coming from Selma to Montgomery

Voting Rights

Aug 6, 1965

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting rights law and outlawed literacy test

Marching

Oct 15, 1966

250,000 people marched on Washington to demand immediate passage of the civil rights bill

R. I. P. Martin Luther King

Apr 4, 1968

On this day Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee