Martin luther king

Civil Rights Timeline

By Kevin Dou
  • Period: 1966 BCE to 1982 BCE

    BPP

    Black Panther Party
  • 1963 BCE

    March on Birmingham, Alabama

    An effort to bring attention to African Americans in Birmingham.
  • 1954 BCE

    De jure vs De Facto segregation

    After Brown v Board of Education, in difference with de facto and de jure.
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    Plessy v Ferguson

    Upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilties under the doctrine of separate but equal.
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    Thurgood Marshall

    Ended legal segregation, and was 96th Supreme Court Judge, and first African American justice.

  • NAACP

    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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    Rosa Parks

    Activist in the Civil Rights movement. Nicknamed "First Lady of Civil Rights, and "The Mother of the Freedom Movement"
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    Malcom X

    African American Buddhist, was also a human rights activist.
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    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

    An American Baptist and activist. Nonviolent Civil Rights leader.
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    Emmitt Till

    An African-American teenager who was killed in Mississippi in '55.

  • Race Riots

    A riot in Detroit where there were a lot of immigrants moving in from Southern America. 34 died, 433 injured, 1,800 arrested.
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    Brown v Board of Education of Topeka

    Court bands white and black schools. Declares them unconstitutional.

  • Little Rock School Intergration

    After court ruling, President Eisenhower has nine kids in Little Rock (Little Rock 9) escorted to school by federal troops.
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    The Sit-Ins

    Nonviolent protests that were in Greensboro,NC. Stores removed racial segregation in the South.
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    Freedom Riders

    Civil Rights activist who rode interstate buses into the South. Challenged non-enforcement of Southern U.S..

  • 24th amendment

    Abolished poll tax for federal elections.

  • March on Washington

    March to allow jobs for African Americans.
    Martin Luther King gives iconic speech "I Have a Dream"

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Outlaws discrimination on race, color, sex, or national origin.
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    March from Selma to Montgomery

    A protest march on a Selma highway ALL THE WAY to Montgomery to have voting rights.

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Ammendment that allowed African Americans to vote.
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    Race Riots

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    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    This was a time when blacks refused to ride public buses in Montgomery, AL. It happened for one year and a extra day.