civil rights timeline

By madwil5597

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education
    Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality

  • Emmett Till Murder

    Emmett Till Murder
    Emmett Louis Till was a 14-year-old African American boy who was abducted, tortured and lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store.