Civil Rights Movement

  • Brown V. Board

    Brown V. Board
    Supreme court rules that segregation is public schools is unconstitutional
  • Boycott

    Boycott
    African-Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, boycott city buses to support Rosa Parks, who was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man.
  • Central High Little Rock Arkansas

    Central High Little Rock Arkansas
    President Dwight D. Eisenhower orders federal troops to escort nine black students safely to school
  • Sit-In

    Sit-In
    Four college students in Greensboro, North Carolina, stage a "sit-in" demonstration at a department-store lunch counter to protest a whites-only service policy.
  • I Have A Dream

    I Have A Dream
    Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his famous "I have a dream speech" in front of 250,000 Americans from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
  • Civil Rights Act

    Civil Rights Act
    President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act.
  • Stops Protestors

    Stops Protestors
    In Selma, Alabama. police use clubs, tear gas, water cannons, and dogs to stops marchers from protesting efforts to keeps blacks from voting
  • First African American Supreme Court

    First African American Supreme Court
    Sworn the first African American Supreme Court Justice
  • Martin Luther King March

    Martin Luther King March
    Martin Luther King Jr. plans and organizes a march to call attention to the problems but was killed before he could begin the march