Civil rights timeline

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown v Board was a Supreme Court case that sad that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
  • Rosa Parks Bus Boycott

  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference

    The SCLC was an organization linked to the black churches. 60 black ministers were pivotal in organizing civil rights activism. Martin Luther King Jr was elected President. They focused its non violent strategy on citizenship, schools and efforts to desegregate individual cities. It played key roles in the March on Washington in 1963 and the Voting Rights Campaign and March to Montgomery in 1965.
  • Little Rock 9