Civil Rights Timeline

Civil Rights Movements Graph

Apr 16, 1930

This graph represents how the different historical civil right movements that were being taken place, and this is important because it gives people a place to look back on.

civil rights Map

Dec 23, 1930

This map is important because it shows the different cities in which civil rights were majorly taken place.

civil rights chart

Dec 23, 1930

This chart represents how the different acts helped people throughout time.

Photo #1

Dec 23, 1930

First most important a influenceable people from the civil rights movements.

Photo #2

Dec 23, 1930

Second most important a influenceable people from the civil rights movements.

Alexandria, Virgina

Aug 1, 1939

Samuel Tucker had a sit-in at a white people library, through his bravery he inspired others to do sit-ins, which the people challenged the inequality in places like Chicago, St. Louis and Baltimore.

Executive Order 9981

Jul 26, 1948

Truman the US president signed an Executive Order 9981 which ended discrimination, and segregation, in the Military.

Brown vs. Board

May 15, 1954

Brown vs. Board was a movement in the Supreme Court, which was laws forcing African Americans and whites to go to different schools was unconstitutional and decided that it wasn't really separate but equal.

White Citizens Council

Jul 11, 1954

A group of white supremacists founded this group and was originally created to fight against Brown v. Board Education act. Freedom Riders and Martin Luther and many other civil rights movements were attacked by this group.

Emmit Till

Aug 28, 1955

Emmit Till was an African American boy, and he was from Chicago. He ended up dying because he was trying to hit on Carline Bryant who was a white woman. Emmit was brutally murder by her white husband.

Rosa Parks

Dec 1, 1955

During the 1955, A African American person named Rosa parks, fought against Jim Crow Laws by sitting in front of the bus. This was a powerful move because segregation laws made African Americans and minorities sit in the back of the bus while giving priority to white people. This moved a lot of people to boycott the buses. Bus drivers weren't getting enough pay to live.

MLK House Bombed

Jan 30, 1956

His house was bombed by a white supremacist, this really proved if Martin Luther's words to the people about nonviolence was really true, and lots saw to see how he would react.

Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth House Bombed

Dec 25, 1956

The KKK bombed the home of Fred Shuttlesworth, who was a black man fighting against inequality,. the bomb destroyed the home and also damaged the church which was beside it. This happened because people had gotten mad of his civil rights movements of a black man.

SCLC

Jan 10, 1957

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is a civil rights group that was with the African American people and their first president was Martin Luther king.

Little Rock 9

Sep 2, 1957

The first African American students in Little Rock High School. The Governor ordered the National Guard to block the entrance to the school and not let the African students in. In response the president sent the 101st Airborne Division to escort the students and each student was given a bodyguard.

SNCC

Apr 1, 1960

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was created during the Civil Rights era, it originally was from a student Ella Baker at university in the 1960s. SNCC grew large as a whole because of how many people were supporting it

Freedom Riders

Feb 1, 1961

The Freedom Riders were students and their movement was to ride the buses to Washington DC to Jacksonville Mississippi, which stood for freedom and desegregation.

Birmingham Jail MLK

Apr 16, 1963

MLK wrote this to defend non-violent protests to discrimination for the American Civil Rights movement, and was a reminder that violence is not always the answer and helped spread overall none violence, but to show there's other ways of fighting and winning.

MLK Famous "I have a dream" Speech

Apr 28, 1963

Martin Luther King Jr. gave the speech to the followers of him and his hopes and dreams in the future, that one day his children will live in a nation where they will not be judged by skin color or race or ethnicity.

24th Amendment

Jan 23, 1964

The 24th amendment took away polling taxes which helped the minorities and others to have a say for voting and other things without not having enough to pay.

James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner

Jun 21, 1964

These men were shot by the White Knights of the KKK. They had been working on the "Freedom Summer" campaign, helping and attempting to regulate the registration of African Americans to vote they died for freedom and this inspired others to fight for freedom.

Malcolm X Assassinated

Feb 21, 1965

Malcolm X, who was a civil rights advocate and leader, and used violence when necessary to achieve equality, was killed. His killers were members of the Nation of Islam.

Black Panthers

Oct 15, 1966

Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded this group black panthers to push the black power movement and to help in civil right movements and to change US politics for the better, they were also there to defend there people and to fight back.

MLK Assassination

Apr 4, 1968

MLK was killed in Memphis Tennessee 39 years of age, his killer James Earl Ray was sentenced to death by the US for the murder of MLK, his death effected a nation and a nation gained knowledge and wisdom from him.

Civil Rights Act 1968

Apr 11, 1968

After the death of MLK, President LBJ put this act into place. What the law did was he made it illegal to harm someone because of their race or origin. equal housing opportunities were created because of this act.