Civil Rights Timeline

  • 1967 BCE

    Race Riots

    It came as an immediate response to police brutality but underlying conditions including segregated housing and schools and rising black unemployment helped drive the anger of the rioters.
  • Plessy Vs Ferguson

    Plessy Vs Ferguson
    Constitutional law of the U.S. Supreme court, upheld state racial segregation laws.
  • NAACP

    NAACP
  • Brown vs Board of Education

    A court case where the court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional
  • Emmett Till

    Emmett Louis Till was an African-American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 at the age of 14
  • Rosa Parks

    Sat on a bus and refused to give up her seat so a guy could take it and she would have to walk
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott
    Political and social against the policy of racial segregation in Montgomery Alabama.
  • The Sit-ins

    The Sit-ins
    Were a series of non violent protests which led to Woolworth removing its policy of of racial segregation in the south.
  • Freedom Rides

    Freedom Rides
    Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern U.S. in 1961
  • March On Birmingham

    March On Birmingham
    , was a movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to bring attention to the integration efforts of African American
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington
    The march of Washington was For Jobs and and freedom
  • 24th amendment

    24th amendment
    The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress.
  • Civil rights act of 1964

    Civil rights act of 1964
    US labor law that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
  • March From Selma to Mongomery for voting rights

    On 25 March 1965, Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma,
  • Voting rights of 1965

    Voting rights of 1965
    Aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from having their right to vote
  • Black Panther Party

  • Dr luther king Jr

    He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs
  • De jure vs De Facto segregation

    Was racial segregation especially in publuic schools
  • Thurgood Marshall

    He guided the litigation that destroyed the legal underpinnings of Jim Crow segregation. His exploits earned him the appellation “Mr. Civil Rights.”
  • Malcom X

    was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist