AD's Civil Rights Timeline

By amberisaacs

  • Supreme Court makes decision.

    The Supreme Court agrees that segragation in schools is unconstitutional.

  • Rosa Parks refuses to leave seat.

    Rosa parks refuses to give her seat to a white man, resulting in a great upheavele and a boycott twords the bus system.
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    The SCLC is created.

    Martin Luther King and others establish the SCLC.

  • Martin Luther King is Assassinated.

    Martin Luther King is Assassinated.

  • First black man enrolls at a university.

    James Meredith becomes the first african american to enroll at the university of Mississippi.

  • "I have a Dream" speech

    Martin Luther King gives the famous "I Have a Dream" speech.

  • Blacks get the right to vote.

    Blacks get the right to vote.

  • Black Panthers are founded.

    Black Panthers are founded.

  • The civil rights act is changed.

    Presedent Johnson changes the civil rights act.

  • Presedent Bush signs the civil rights act

    Presedent Bush signs the civl rights act of 1991.