Civil Rights Timeline Mike Scroggins

By Mike Scroggins

  • Brown v. The Board of Education

    Brown v. The Board of Education
    1. The court case was Plessy v. Ferguson
    2. Linda Brown, An African American girl, was denied into a school in her neighborhood
    3. The ruling of this case was school segregation was unconstitutional by the 14th amendment

  • Emmett Till's Death

    Emmett Till was a fourteen year old boy who moved to Money, Mississippi. While there he didn't know of the segregation laws and flirted with a white woman. Because he did so, he was lynched and his body was unrecognizable.

  • John Earl Reese Slain by Night Riders

    Reese was an innocent man who was at a cafe in Mayflower, Texas. He was dancing when white men fired into the building, killing him and wounding others.

  • Rosa Parks Arrested

    Rosa Parks Arrested
    1. Rosa Parks was on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama and refused to give up her seat to a white man, which was a segregation law.
    2. The result was she was took into custody by Montgomery police

  • Civil Right Act of 1957

    Civil Right Act of 1957
    1. President Eisenhower passed this law
    2. It protected the right of African Americans to vote

  • Events at Little Rock, Arkansas

    Events at Little Rock, Arkansas
    1. Nine African American students were admitted into a school in Little rock which made the white people going there mad. An angry mob was at the school and started a huge fight that resulted in National Guard coming to aid
    2. The national guard went there and assisted the students

  • Attack on Freedom Riders

    Attack on Freedom Riders
    1. They were a mixed group of people who traveled to the South to speak up for bus integration.
    2. CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) helped the Freedom Riders
    3. The Freedom Riders were a mixed group of both African Americans and whites

  • James Meredith Enrolls at Ole Miss

    James Meredith Enrolls at Ole Miss
    1. He tried to enroll but the governor, Ross Barnett, wouldn't let him. Meredith then went on trial to get admitted.
    2. Meredith went on trial to try to get admitted into the school.

  • Medgar Evers Assassinated

    Medgar Evers Assassinated
    1. Evers was a civil Rights activist who lived in Mississippi and organized voter registration efforts. 2.While walking up to his house, Medgar was shot in the back by Byron De LA Beckwith.

  • The March to Washington

    The March to Washington
    1. The purpose was to mach to Washington D.C and demand jobs and freedom from segregation and/or Jim Crow laws.
    2. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I have a dream.." speech to everyone in Washington D.C

  • Rev. Bruce Klunder Killed

    He was a civil rights activist who tried to stop the building of a segregated school in Cleveland, Ohio. He was crushed to death when a bulldozer backed over him.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964
    1. President Johnson signed this law.
    2. It outlawed discrimination based on race, color religion and other things.

  • March to Selma

    March to Selma
    1. It was organized to pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965
    2. 200 state troopers and deputized citizens rushed the demonstrators
    3. 70 African Americans were injured and many more were hospitalized, 8 days later the president proposed a new voting rights act

  • Thurgood Marshall 1st black Supreme Court Justice

    Thurgood Marshall 1st black Supreme Court Justice
    1. He was an attorney and was also part of the NAACP
    2. I think so because it was a big step, especially with how racist people were back then. Being the 1t black S.C justice was huge.

  • The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

    The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
    1. Dr. King was standing on his hotel balcony in Memphis, and was shot by a sniper.
    2. It marked the end of the civil Rights Movement, an important era in American History.