Civil Rights Timeline

By Mathis Lab

  • Rosa Parks Arrested

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    Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • Segregation in buses unconstitutional

  • The Little Rock Nine

    enrolled in a public school and were escorted by the army to protect them.

  • Peaceful March on Washington DC

  • Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act

    Discrimination on the race, on the color, on the gender, on the religion or on the national origine are illegal.

  • "I Have A Dream" Speech by Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Martin Luther King Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize

  • Bloody Sunday

  • The Voting Rights Act Passed

  • Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated