Civil Rights Timeline

Emmett Till is murdered

Aug 28, 1955

He was accused of offending a white women and he was only 14.

Rosa Parks Arrest

Dec 1, 1955

Rosa Parks was arrested 1955, for refusing to give up her seat on the bus. She was bailed out by Nixon and Sparked the Montgomery bus boycott

Civil Rights Act of 1957 is passed

Sep 4, 1957

The Civil Rights Act was passed in 1957. It eastablished a civil rights division in the Departmant of Justice.