Civil Rights Timeline

By Pawmoo
  • Brown V. Board of Eduction

    Brown V. Board of Eduction

    Ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality. ,
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    A political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.
  • Little Rock Nine

    Little Rock Nine

    Nine teens who became the first African American students to enter Little Rock’s Central High School.
  • First Lunch Counter Sit-In

    First Lunch Counter Sit-In

    Four African American students from a North Carolina College sat down at a lunch counter but was refused to be served. The four students stayed until the store closed.
  • Freedom Riders

    Freedom Riders

    Seven blacks and six whites boarded two buses in Washington D.C. and headed south. When they reached Anniston, Alabama, a white mob attacked them.
  • Birmingham Campaign

    Birmingham Campaign

    King and SCLC joined forces with local Birmingham activists led by Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth. They planned a series of nonviolent actions against segregation.
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington

    A quarter of a million people rallied in Washington, D.C. to demand an end to segregation, fair wages and economic Justice, and long overdue civil rights protections.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, national origin, religion, color, or race.
  • Voting Rights act of 1965

    Voting Rights act of 1965

    Outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.