Ruby Bridges and civil rights movement

  • May 17 U.S.Supreme Court bans segregation in public schools.

  • Ruby was born in Mississipi,four years later they move to New orleans

  • Rosa Parks,an african-american woman, is arrested december 1 for refusing to give up her seat to a white person.Bus boycott lauched montgomery,alabama.

    Rosa Parks,an african-american woman, is arrested december 1 for refusing to give up her seat to a white person.Bus boycott lauched montgomery,alabama.
  • after more than a year of boycotting the buses and a legal fight, the Montgomery buses desegregate.

  • federal court forced the desegregation of schools in the South.

  • May FReedom rides begin from washington d.c:groups of black and white people ride buses through the South to challenge segregation.

  • police arrest Civil Rights Leader Rev.Martin Luther King Jr. and other ministers demonstrating in Birmingham,Alabama, then turn fire and police dogs on the maerchers.

    police arrest Civil Rights Leader Rev.Martin Luther King Jr. and other ministers demonstrating in Birmingham,Alabama, then turn fire and police dogs on the maerchers.
  • president john F kennedy calls for Civil Rights Act.

  • president john f Kennedy 1961-1963,shot dead

  • look magazine published Norman Rockwells painting THE PROBLEM WE ALL LIVE WITH

  • president Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964

  • january Ruby had her first day at frantz elementary school for whites in New Orleans.

  • Black Nationalist Leadder Malcom X is murdered

    Black  Nationalist Leadder Malcom X is murdered
  • Civil Rights Leader The Rev.Martin luther King Jr. is assasinate in Memphis,tennessee,unleashing violence in more 100 cities.

  • the story of Ruby bridges was published

    the story of Ruby bridges was published