Civil Rights timeline

By gg.schwifty

  • Brown vs Board of Education

    Brown vs Board of Education
    Brown v. Board of Education started in Topeka, Kansas, it began in December 9, 1952 to May 1754. Oliver brown was involved with his daughter Linda Brown. NAACP and Segregationists were also involved. The case was a landmark legal battle that led to Supreme Court ruling racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.

  • Murder of Emmet Till

    Murder of Emmet Till
    Emmet till was kidnapped, beaten, shot in the head, and had a large metal fan tied to his neck. Bryant's husband Roy and his half-brother J. W. Milam, did all this. This all happened just because he whistled at a woman, Carolyn Bryant.

  • Rosa Parks and the Bus Boycott

  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference

    Southern Christian Leadership Conference
    The SCLC was an organization linked to the black churches. 60 black ministers were pivotal in organizing civil right activism. Martin Luther King Jr was elected President. They focused its non violent strategy on citizenship, school and efforts to desegregate individual cities. It played key roles in the March on Washington in 1963 and the Selma Voting Rights Campaign and March to Montgomery in 1965.