Civil Rights Timeline

By megsoz624

  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    Landmark court case which upheld racial segregation in public facilities

  • Formation of NAACP

    National Organization of the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization to ensure the the equality of rights of African Americans

  • Brown V. BOE of Topeka

    Landmark Supreme Court Case where the court declared separate schools for blacks and whites unconstitutional

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Protest campaigning against racial segregation of the public transit system

  • Formation of SCLC

    Southern Leadership Christian Conference was made to coordinate Protestant actions under MLK

  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

    First federal civil rights legislation passed which gave rights to African Americans

  • Integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas

    Nine black students enrolled at a formerly all white high school

  • Greensboro Sit-In

    Series of nonviolent protests in a lunch counter in Greensboro, NC against racial segregation

  • Malcolm X leads the Nation of Islam

    African American leader of Islam which who enhanced racial pride and desegregation.

  • Formation of SNCC

    Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was made to give black students more of a voice in the civil rights movement

  • Boynton V. Virginia

    Decision of the Supreme Court overturning the conviction of an African American law student of trespassing in a “white-only” bus

  • First Freedom Ride

    Bus trips through the South to protest racial segregation on buses

  • James Meredith enrolls in Ole Miss

    African American man, Meredith, enrolled at the University of Mississippi leading to riots and violence

  • Birmingham Protests

    A movement to bring attention to the integration efforts in Birmingham, Alabama

  • March on Washington

    Rally for jobs and freedom where 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington D.C.

  • 24th Amendment Passed

    Protecting the rights of Americans to vote

  • Freedom Summer

    Volunteer campaign to attempt to register as many African American voters in Mississippi as possible.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion or sex

  • Malcolm X assassinated

    Civil Rights activist assassinated by rival Black Muslims

  • Selma March

    3 marches along the highway in Selma AL toward the capital of Montgomery

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Prohibits racial discrimination in voting practices

  • Black Panthers founded

    Black political organization for self-defense

  • MLK Jr. assassinated

    King was staying at a Motel in Memphis when he was fatally shot

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    AKA Fair Housing Act which provided equal housing opportunities regardless of race, religion, or sex.

  • Robert F. Kennedy assassinated

    Brother to JFK, was killed in a Los Angeles Hotel by a young Palestinian