civil rights timeline

  • Keys v. Carolina Coach

    Keys v. Carolina Coach
    She was just only 22 years old and she prohibited of Black passengers in buses traveling across state lines.
  • Emmett Till's Murder

    Emmett Till's Murder
    he was killed because he was allegedly flirting with a white woman. he was only 14 years old. he was shoot by the gun in the head. his mom took some pictures of it because she wanted everybody to know
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott
    -1955 Rosa Park &NAACP being bus boycott in Montagomery ,AL
    -makes MLK a Nat'l leader
  • Little Rock Nine Crisis

    Little Rock Nine Crisis
    -Gov Orval Faubus
    refused integration in LtRck HS
    - many whites flee to all white private school
    A lot of people change to private school
  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

    Civil Rights Act of 1957
    established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964
    prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
    This happened because to end racial discrimination and segregation in public accommodations, public education, and federally assisted programs.
  • Heart of Atlanta Motel vs US

    Heart of Atlanta Motel vs US
    the Court held the government could enjoin the motel from discriminating on the basis of race under the Commerce Clause.
    they discationed that everybody should have same right
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Voting Rights Act of 1965
    It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.
    This Act was protected by Black Americans and other minority groups
  • Assassination of Martin Luther King ,jr

    Assassination of Martin Luther King ,jr
    when he was standing on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, a sniper shot his neck and he died when he was 39 years old.
    MLK's death and the civil rights movement would lead to the desegregation of schools and more equality.
    -King arrested-wriites "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
    and 4 girls dead
  • Fair Housing Act

    Fair Housing Act
    prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, sex, (and as amended) handicap and family status
  • Swann vs Charlotte-Mecklenburg School

    Swann vs Charlotte-Mecklenburg School
    the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously upheld busing programs that aimed to speed up the racial integration of public schools in the United States.
  • Shirley Chisolm's Presidential Campaign

    Shirley Chisolm's Presidential Campaign
    she became the first black candidate for a major-party nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's nomination.
  • Hank Aaron's Home Run Record

    Hank Aaron's Home Run Record
    He was a baseball player which he hit 715th home run. he was 39 years old and he played for Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves in the National League (NL) and two seasons with the Milwaukee Brewers.
  • Barbara Jordan's Address at the Democratic National Convention

    Barbara Jordan's Address at the Democratic National Convention
    she was the first black woman that she keynote speech.
    she also was political and a lawyer.
    Jordan was an effective campaigner for the Democrats during the 1960 presidential election, and this experience propelled her into politics.
  • University of California Regents vs. Bakke

    University of California Regents vs. Bakke
    Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., agreed, casting the deciding vote ordering the medical school to admit Bakke.
    Justice Lewis Powell's ruling in the 1978 case Regents v. Bakke buoyed affirmative action—but in the process, it transformed how colleges think about race and equality in admissions.