civil rights timeline

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal". which required separate railway cars for blacks and whites. In 1892, Homer Plessy
  • Race Riots

    Malcolm x was Islam, popularly known as the Black Muslims he went to jail for robbing a store in later on he got shot trying o speak
  • Brown v. Board of education of Topeka

    Thur good Marshall studied law at Howard he utilized the judiciary to champion equality for African Americans. In 1954, he won the Brown v. Board of Education case
  • Montgomery bus boycott

    Rosa park was know for not giving her seat on the bus to a white men in she went to jail for it
  • Little Rock school integration

    National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling at Central High School. Central High was an all white school.
  • The Sit-Ins

    Students from across the country came together to form the Student Nonviolent
  • Freedom Rides

    seven blacks and six whites left Washington, D.C., on two public buses bound for the Deep South.they was intended to test the supreme court
  • March on Birmingham Alabama

    it was a movement for African american rights it was lead by Martian Luther king Jr
  • march on Washington

    martian Luther kings Jr i have a dream speech was at the Lincoln Memorial 250,000 people showed up
  • 24th Amendment

    the United States of America abolished the poll tax for all federal elections A poll tax was a tax of anywhere from one to a few dollars that had to be paid annually by each voter in order to be able to cast a vote.
  • March from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    it prevented African American from from voting under the 15th amendment
  • De jure vs.De facto segregation