Civil Right Movement Timeline

By Crizia

  • Brown vs Board Of Education

    Brown vs Board Of Education
    The Brown vs Board Of Education was a landmark of the United States supreme court case in which the state declared seperate public schools for black and whites to be unconstitutional

  • Rosa Park

    Rosa Park
    Rosa Park refuses to give up her seat in Montgomery, Alabama to a white person .She was later arrested and triggering a long year sucess of the African American Boycott Movement

  • Unconstitutional

    Unconstitutional
    The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the segregation of Montgomery, Alabama buses is unconstitutional.

  • Little Rock Nine

    Little Rock Nine
    For the first time since Reconstruction, the federal government uses the military to uphold African Americans' civil rights, as soldiers escort nine African American students to desegregate a school in Little Rock, Arkansas. Daisy Bates, an NAACP leader, advised and assisted the students and eventually had a state holiday dedicated to her.

  • Sit In

    Sit In
    Four African American college students hold a sit-in to integrate a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C. launching a wave of similar protests across the South.

  • I Had a Dream Speech

    I Had a Dream Speech
    More than 200,000 people march on Washington, D.C., in the largest civil rights demonstration ever; Martin Luther King, Jr., gives his "I Have a Dream" speech.