Civil Rights Timeline

By lilym21601

  • Brown v Board of Education

    Brown v Board of Education
    A decision of the Supreme Court where the Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality

  • Brown v Board of Education ii

    A year after Brown v board of education court ordered schools to integrate faster.

  • Lynching of Emmett Till

    14-year-old African American boy who was lynched in Mississippi after being accused of offending a white woman in a grocery store. He became an icon for the civil rights movement because of the horrific actions of his attackers.