Civil rights timeline

  • Creation of the NAACP

    Creation of the NAACP

    Du Bois , Terrell, and others gathered in New York City where they founded the NAACP to fight racism and violence against all people of color
  • The Tulsa Race Massacre

    The Tulsa Race Massacre

    it was believed to be the worst incident of the racial violence in American history
  • Scottsboro boys

    Scottsboro boys

    nine African American teens were accused of raping two white women on the southern railroad freight train in northern Alabama.
  • Creation of the Black Panthers

    Creation of the Black Panthers

    the black panther party for self defense was founded, they sought justice for African Americans.
  • Jackie Robinson Breaks the Color Barrier

    Jackie Robinson Breaks the Color Barrier

    you could ask almost anyone on the street who was in the major leagues and they would say Jackie Robinson.
  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    Brown vs. Board of Education

    the brown vs. Board was declared the separate but equal doctrine unconstitutional
  • The muder of Emmitt till

    The muder of Emmitt till

    Till was an African American boy at 14 was abducted and lynched in Mississippi after being accused of offending a white women
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    it was started by the arrest of Rosa parks, it was a 13 month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses
  • The Little Rock

    The Little Rock

    Japanese planes destroyed 19 US warships and 300 aircraft and killed over 2400 servicemen
  • Ruby Bridges desegregated an elementary school in New Orleans

    Ruby Bridges desegregated an elementary school in New Orleans

    she is an American civil rights activist, she was the first to attend a whites only school in Louisiana
  • Letter from a Birmingham Jail

    Letter from a Birmingham Jail

    after being in jail for the anti-segregation protests.
  • The Civil Rights March on Washington

    The Civil Rights March on Washington

    more then a quarter million people participated in the march on Washington for jobs and freedom
  • Assassination of Malcolm X

    Assassination of Malcolm X

    he was a US black nationalist leader Malcolm x was assassinated at the age of 39.
  • Voting Rights Act Passed

    Voting Rights Act Passed

    the long issues of voting rights had come to the front and had been launched by civil rights activists in Selma Alabama
  • Thurgood Marshall Named Supreme Court Justice

    Thurgood Marshall Named Supreme Court Justice

    Lyndon was nominated to be the civil rights lawyer, thurgood Marshall to be the first African American justice to serve on the Supreme Court.
  • Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

    assassinated at 39, pronounced dead a 7:05pm

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