Civil Rights Timeline

By Pangcupine

  • 13th Amendment

    declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Therefore abolishing slavery

  • 14th Amendment

  • Jim Crow Laws

    Continued to 1965

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

  • Forming of the NAACP

  • Brown v. Board of Education

  • Emmett Till Murder

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

  • March on Washington

  • 24th Amendment

  • Freedom Summer

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

  • Bloody Sunday

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965