Civil Rights Timeline

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson

    The case that said segregation was legal as long as public places had things for each race.
  • NAACP

    NAACP

    The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People helped colored people fight for equal rights.
  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    The Court ruled that state laws of segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
  • De Jure vs De Facto Segregation

    De Jure vs De Facto Segregation

    Practice of racial segregation.
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Instead of riding the segregated busses, African Americans decided to boycott them and walk everywhere until the busses went out of business which ford them to unsegregated them.
  • Emmett Till

    Emmett Till

    Emmett Till was a boy from South Side Chicago, who went to visit his uncle in Mississippi and was brutally murdered after "flirting" with a white woman.
  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks was an African American who wouldn't give up her seat for a white man, which started the Bus Boycott.
  • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr./ Gandhi/Thoreau/Randolph

    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr./ Gandhi/Thoreau/Randolph

    They all wanted equal rights, but to achieve this goal they all tried with no violence.
  • Little Rock School Integration

    Little Rock School Integration

    There were 9 students who started the integration in schools.
  • Freedom Rides

    Freedom Rides

    Civil rights activists who rode busses into the segregated states to challenge the Supreme Court who wasn't enforcing desegregation.
  • 24th Amendment

    24th Amendment

    The 24th Amendment was to abolish poll taxes.
  • March on Birmingham, Alabama

    March on Birmingham, Alabama

    This march was done to bring attention to desegregate public places in Alabama.
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington

    This march was held in Washington for the equal rights of African American jobs and freedom.
  • The Sit-Ins

    The Sit-Ins

    Nonviolent protests in southern states.
  • Malcolm X

    Malcolm X

    Malcolm was a human rights activist who helped push for African American rights.
  • Race Riots

    Race Riots

    These Race Riots were led by white people against African Americans.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964

    This prohibited discrimination on race, religion, gender, or orientation.
  • March from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights

    March from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights

    This march fought for the right to carry out their protest for African American voting rights.
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Voting Rights Act of 1965

    This act prohibited prejudice voting practices in southern states.
  • Black Panther Party

    Black Panther Party

    They were African American people protecting their people from police brutality in their own neighborhoods.
  • Thurgood Marshall

    Thurgood Marshall

    Thurgood was a council of the NAACP who was brought in to help win the case of "Brown vs Board of Education" to stop segregation in schools.