Civil Rights Movement - Entree

By AaronVDM

  • Executive Order 9981

    President Harry Truman issues an Executive Order to end discrimination in armed services

  • BVBOE

    Radical segregation is eliminated from schools. (some schools are still segregated)

  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus, causing the Bus Boycott.

  • Civil Rights Act of 57

    Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

  • Sit-In

    Four black college students refuse to leave a "whites only" sit-in. This caused other people to do this.

  • March on Washington

    Martin Luther King Jr. gives his "I Have a Dream" speech.
    Thousands of people join to give equal job rights for all races.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This prevents discrimination of gender, and race.

  • Voting Rights Act

    President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This makes the use of a literacy test to require voting illegal.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    President Johnson signs the Fair Housing Act. This requires equal housing opportunity to all races.

  • MLK assassination

    Martin Luther King Jr is assassinated byJames Earl Ray.