Kalyn's Civil Rights Movement Timeline

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Dec 25, 1896

In the year of 1896 one of the most important case rulings dealindg with color happened. This case was Plessy vs Ferguson. This case is important to the civil rights movement because it's what made seggregation legal.

NAACP founded

Dec 25, 1909

FDR bans discrimination in defense industries

Dec 25, 1941

CORE founded

Dec 25, 1942

An American Dilemma published

Dec 25, 1944

Jackie Robinson breaks MLB color barrier

Dec 25, 1947

Truman desegregates the miltary

Dec 25, 1948

Brown vs. Board of Education

Dec 25, 1954

Emmett Till Murdered

Aug 28, 1955

Emmett Till was a 14 yr old boy from the north visiting in the south. He was murdered when he was caught "flirting" with a white girl. This relates to the civil rights movement because it was an event that helped trigger the movement.

Rosa Parks Arrested

Dec 1, 1955

Rosa Parks was a very famous Civil Rights activist. The main reason she is so famous is because she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man ona segregated bus. She was a start in the peaceful side of the Civil Rights movement.

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Dec 25, 1956

SCLC founded

Dec 25, 1957

Little Rock 9 integrate Central High School

Dec 25, 1957

sit-ins start in Greensboro, NC

Feb 1, 1960

SNCC founded

Dec 1, 1960

Freedom rides

Dec 25, 1961

James Meredith integrates Ole Miss

Dec 25, 1962

24th Amendment ratified

Dec 25, 1962

Medgar Evers assassinated

Jun 12, 1963

March on Washington

Aug 28, 1963

16th Street Baptist Church Bombed

Sep 15, 1963

JFK assassinated

Nov 22, 1963

Letter From Birmingham Jail

Dec 25, 1963

Freedom Summer murders

Dec 25, 1964

Malcolm X assassinated

Feb 21, 1965

Malcolm X was also a very famous Civil Rights activist. However, unlike the ways of people like Rosa Parks or Dr. King, Malcolm X was a violent activist. He's important to show that not everybody in the movement was peaceful.

"Bloody Sunday" in Selms Alabama

Mar 7, 1965

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Dec 25, 1965

Black Panther Party founded

Dec 25, 1966

Dr. Marin Luther King Jr. assassinated

Apr 4, 1968

Dr. King is possibly the most famous face and name of the Civil Rights movement. He led many peaceful protests, marches, and speaches. He was very important to the movement because of how peaceful he was through out it.

RFK assassinated

Jun 6, 1968

Tommie Smith & John Carlos protest at summer olympics

Dec 25, 1968

Byron de la Beckwith convicted of Medgar Evers murder

Dec 25, 1994

Edgar Ray Killen convicted of Freedom Summer murders

Jun 21, 2005