Week 6 Timeline

By CameronDavisJr12

  • Pre-Movement, Order 9981

    This order ends segregation in the United States
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    Civil Rights Movement

    Reference's: Onion, A. (n.d.). Civil Rights Movement timeline ‑ timeline events. History.com. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement-timeline

  • Brown V. Board of Education

    Supreme court decide to end segregation in schools, however this wouldn't reach all schools.

  • The Lynching of Emmett Till

    This atrocity was key for the civil rights movement as leaders used his murder to bring the violence against Black people to the forefront of the media.

  • Rosa Parks doesn't move

    Rosa Park's while sitting in the front of the bus was asked to move by a white person. After refusing, a boycott from busses began.

  • Little Rock Nine

    After being block for integrating, nine students are escorted by federal agents into a "white only" school

  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

    This law protected the voting rights of African Americans and allowed federal punishment against those who prevented voting.

  • Birmingham Bomb

    Four young girls are murdered in an explosion caused by an explosive with the intent to discourage the Civil right activists.

  • Selma to Montgomery

    This march lead by MLK was a march in order to show solidarity in the face of violence.

  • Voting Rights Act

    This act allowed the dissolution of literacy tests and helped investigate election's and voting processes.

  • MLK Assissnation

    James Earl Ray shoots MLK Jr in Tennessee

  • The Civil Rights act of 1968

    This allowed equal housing no mater what a persons background was