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court case
The us supreme court ruled brown vs board of education that it was unconstitutional so that desegregated schools 1954 -
The murder
On August 28, 1955, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped and murdered in Money, Mississippi, galvanizing support for racial reform in the South. -
The bus
Rosa parks was arrested a black seamstress when she refused to vacate her seat in the white section of a city bus on December 1 1955 -
high school
little rock on September 3 in 1957 they gained national attention when the governor Orval Faustus sent the national guard to try and prevent nine African american students integrating the high school -
Eisenhower
On September 9, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1957. -
The plan
Two years after the 1954 Brown vs Board of Education case Judge, J. Skelly Wright ordered the Orleans Parish School Board to create a plan for the desegregation of New Orleans' public schools. -
campaigns
The Nashville sit in movement is well known as one of the most successful and kept student created campaigns of the Civil Rights movement. -
the next campaign not by students
In November 1961 the people of Albany Georgia created a plan to campaign to get rid of segregation in all places of local life. -
riot
On September 30 1962 people started to riot on the campus of the University of Mississippi in oxford where local students and people who encouraged segregation got together to protest the enrollment of James Meredith a black air force veteran attempting to desegregate the all-white school. -
the march
On August 28, 1963, a quarter of a million Americans from across the United States came together on the nation's capitol in what was defining moment in the Civil Rights movement.
