Little rock desegregation 1957

Desegragation Timeline

By a.beers
  • Horace Mann School Opened

    horace school for boys opens
  • Brown vs. Board of education

    The board of education decided to desegragate school
  • Fayetteville public schools desegragate

    fayetteville schools willfuly forced desegragation after the brown vs voardf of education event
  • Federal court rules school-closing as uncontitutional

  • Expected date of littlerock high desegragation

    little rock high desegragates 3 years after brown vs board of education
  • Blossom plan

    the blossom plan related to different religions
  • hoxie schools desegragate

    the hoxie school was desegragated and many people protesteed the decison
  • Emmet Till dies

    murdered at age 14
  • Southern Manifesto

    "to scrupulously refrain from disorder and lawless acts." Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,824106,00.html#ixzz0oUjIAzVw
  • White Citizens Council

    an organization who wanted desegragation
  • Little Rock Central opened

    Little rock central opened its doors as a desegragated school
  • Faubus gives orders to National Gaurd

    he told them not to let black people into white schools
  • Elizabeth Eckford Denied

    Elizabeth was a black girl going to a white school. when she tried to enter she was turned down twice by the national gaurd
  • little rock 9 are escorted by federal troops

    the nine black kids need to be escorted into school to avoid getting beaten
  • minnijean brown expelled

    she was expelled after dumpung a bowl of chilie on one of the school official
  • Ernest Green Graduates from Central

    he is the first black student to graduate from central high
  • Martin Luther king marches on washington

    when martin luther king told his i have a dream speech
  • Johnson signs the civil rights act

    the document outlaws racial segragation in public schools
  • Malcom x is murdered

    he was killed by Talmadge Hayer, Norman Butler, and Thomas Johnson
  • Bloody sunday in montgomery

    600 civil rights activists went east out of salem on us route 80
  • voting rights act

    a law made to be sure that all african americans could vote
  • federal judge orders desegragation

    Judhes order desegragation. now kids must play with kids of other colors
  • Martin Luther King marches on washington