US history timeline

  • Brown v Board of Education

    Brown v Board of Education

    The Supreme Court declared that segregation at school was illegal in Topeka, Kansas.
  • Rosa Parks Arrest

    Rosa Parks Arrest

    Rosa Parks was arrested when she refused to give up her seat to a white person on a bus.
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system
  • Desegregation in Buses

    segregation in buses was rules unconstitutional
  • Little Rock Nine

    Little Rock Nine

    Nine black students enrolled at all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
  • Greensboro Sit In

    Greensboro Sit In

    This was an act of nonviolent protest against a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
  • Ruby Bridges

    Ruby Bridges

    Ruby Bridges was the first African American student to enroll in an all-white school.
  • Freedom Riders

    Freedom Riders

    Groups of White and African American activists participated is bus trips through the American South to protest against segregated buses.
  • James Meredith

    James Meredith

    First African- American to enroll at the University of Mississippi
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington

    A massive protest march when, some 250,000 people gathered in front of MLK.
  • Civil Rights Act

    Civil Rights Act

    Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin
  • Voting Rights Act passed

  • Martin Luther King assassinated

    Martin Luther King assassinated

    MLK was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee
  • Los Angeles Riots

    Los Angeles Riots

    a series of riots and civil disturbances that occurred in the L.A. county
  • Million Man March

    Million Man March

    a large gathering of African- American men in Washington D.C.
  • Colin Powell Becomes Secretary of State

    Colin Powell Becomes Secretary of State

    the first African American to be Secretary of State
  • Barack Obama becomes 44th President of the US

    Barack Obama becomes 44th President of the US

    after a close primary campaign against Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama was nominated by the Democratic Party for president
  • Black Lives Matter Movement

    the term "Black Lives Matter" was created by organizer Alicia Garza
  • George Floyd Protests

    George Floyd Protests

    an ongoing series of protests and civil unrest against police brutality and racism that began in Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Kamala Harris becomes Vice President

    Kamala Harris becomes Vice President

    Kamala Harris becomes the first woman, the first African American vice president