Civil rights

Significant Events of the Civil Rights Movement

By Cristina54

  • NAACP Founded

    NAACP Founded
    Formed to help African American
    s to regain all of thier legal rights in the 14th Amendment. Economic Event

  • Civil Rights Movement Begins

    Civil Rights Movement Begins
    The start of seperation between blacks and whites begins. Social Event

  • Montogomery Bus Boycott

    Montogomery Bus Boycott
    Rosa Parks didn't want to give up her seat to a white person so she got arrested. Social Event

  • The Pearsall Plan

    The Pearsall Plan
    Allowed federal funds for education and African Americans children were resigned in three city school systems. Political Event

  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

    Civil Rights Act of 1957
    Legislation guaranteed voting rights and education to African Americans. Also federal protection. Social Event

  • LIttle Rock Nine

    LIttle Rock Nine
    Entrance to school was blocked for any African American student and the federal troops escorted African American students into the school to avoid the violence. Social Event

  • Birmingham

    Birmingham
    Protesters are having "sit-ins" and "kneel-ins" and Martin Luther King Jr. gets involved including two other people and they get arrested. Social Event

  • Greensboro "Coffe Party"

    Greensboro "Coffe Party"
    Four African American's sat in a restaurant until closed and sit-ins were spread across the country. Economic Event

  • March on Washington

    March on Washington
    Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech to the nation and it's televised. The march is a great symbol of the Civil Rights Movement. Political Event

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964
    Banned segregation in any public areas and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commision prevented job discrimination. Political Event

  • Selma to Montgomery March

    Selma to Montgomery March
    A protester is killed during a peaceful voting-rights demonstration in Selma. Police attack the marchers, televised to the world and President Johnson is prompted to puropose the Voting Rights Act. Political Event

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Voting Rights Act of 1965
    Banned literacy tests and other laws that kept blacks from registering to vote. Political Event

  • Swann v. Mecklenburg

    Swann v. Mecklenburg
    Buses couldn't take African American's to school and it was a powerful tool for integration. Economic Event

  • Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987

    Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987
    It corrects a 1984 Supreme Court decision that limited the governments ability to withhold federal funds institution in which there was discrimination of their race or sex. Political Event