Civil Rights Timeline

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  • Woolworth's counter sit-ins in Greensboro,

    Woolworth's counter sit-ins in Greensboro,
    Four students of color
    Woolworth lunch counter
    category: legal challenges

  • Brown vs Board of Education

    Brown vs Board of Education
    Oliver brown
    Linda Brown
    Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
    Supreme court made the decision to declare segregation unconstitutional
    categories: Education, Legal challenges

  • Murder of Emmitt Till

    Murder of Emmitt Till
    14 year old African American boy
    White women accused him of harassing her
    They kidnapped, beat, shot in the head and tied him with barbed wire then threw his body in the water
    Mom in Chicago had an open casket funeral to show the world what has happened.

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott
    African American
    Montgomery Alabama
    City buses
    categories: protest and resistance

  • Formation of the SCLC

    Formation of the SCLC
    Southern Christian Leadership conference
    African American civil rights organization
    categories: protest and resistance, legal challenges, significant leaders

  • Integration of Little Rock High School (Little Rock Nine)

    Integration of Little Rock High School (Little Rock Nine)
    Little rock central high school
    Group of nine African Americans
    categories: education, legal challenges, racial violence

  • Founding of SNCC

    Founding of SNCC
    Student Nonviolent coordinating committee
    Atlanta Georgia
    categories: protest and resistance, legal challenges, significant leaders

  • Freedom Rides

    Freedom Rides
    White and African American civil rights activists
    bus trips to protest segregated bus terminals
    categories:protest and resistance

  • Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letters from a Birmingham Jail”

    Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letters from a Birmingham Jail”
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    Birmingham Jail
    categories: legal challenges, significant leaders

  • Assassination of Medgar Evers

    Assassination of Medgar Evers
    Medgar Evers
    Mississippi
    American civil rights activist
    categories: significant leaders

  • March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

    March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
    Washington D.C.
    Democrats
    categories: protest and resistance, legal challenges

  • Assassination of Malcolm X

    Assassination of Malcolm X
    He was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist
    categories: legal challenges, significant leaders

  • March on Selma

    March on Selma
    Selma to Montgomery, Alabama
    African Americans
    categories: protest and resistance, legal challenges, significant leaders

  • Assassination of MLK

    Assassination of MLK
    Memphis Tennessee
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    category: significant leader