Civil Rights Timeline

By megcat

  • Missouri v. ex rel Gaines

    Missouri v. ex rel Gaines
    The ruling of the case required the University of Missouri Law School to either admit African Americans or build an equal law school.

  • Morgan v. Virginia

    Morgan v. Virginia
    Ruled that segregation on interstate buses violated federal laws and created an "undue burden" on interstate commerce.

  • Board v. Board of Education

    Board v. Board of Education
    Declared "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal" and the overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and the "separate but equal" doctrine as applied to public schools.

  • I Have a Dream

    I Have a Dream
    MLK gave one of his most famous speeches, in which he says, "I have a dream." He speaks of what he wishes the nation would look like and how people should stand together regardless of their race

  • Birmingham Campaign

    Birmingham Campaign
    The African Americans of Birmingham, Alabama came together to peacefully march through the city for their fight for civil rights. They were ridiculed and even had such things as water sprayed on them from powerful fire hoses.

  • LBJ and MLK

    LBJ and MLK
    LBJ was a president at this time and was very for the civil rights of African Americans. So on this day in 1965, MLK and LBJ had a sit down conversation to where each spoke their ideas and thoughts on this very divided subject.

  • Grape Protest

    Grape Protest
    Cesar Chavez launched a nationwide boycott of the companies' grapes that refused to accept their union as the bargaining agent for the farm workers.

  • MLK Death Date

    MLK Death Date
    MLK was shot in Memphis, Tennessee by James Earl Ray while giving a speech in support of a worker's sanitation protest.

  • Woodstock

    Woodstock
    In with the many movements, a new wave of, music fell upon the nation. With this new wave of music came a very famous music festival that hosted bands of this particular music of the British Invasion. There were more than half a million people here and it was a nonstop party. There were drugs and hippies everywhere, so bad to the point police gave up on arresting them.

  • Occupation of Mount Rushmore

    Occupation of Mount Rushmore
    Native Americans protested at Mount Rushmore and demanded the Fort Laramie Treaty to be honored. The NAtive Americans wanted their rights also.