The Civil Rights Movement

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  • Brown V Board of Education

    U.S Supreme Court declared segregation is schools was unconstitutional. The first school to desegregate was Central High School

  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks was a leader of the bus boycott in Montgomery Alabame. She has bus segregation declared unconstitutional.

  • Southern Congressmen

    Many southern Congressman were very upset with the supreme court ruling. So they called for a massive resistance to these desegregation rulings

  • Little Rock High School

    Arkansas Gov. Orval Rubus uses National Guard to block nine black students from attending Little Rock High School. Following a court order President Eisenhower sent federal troops to ensure compliance.

  • College Students Sit ins

    Four Black college students begin sit-ins at lunch counter of a Greensboro, North Carolina, restaurant where black patrons are not served. Congress then approves a watered down voting rights act after a filibuster by Southern Senators

  • Freedom Rides

    Freedom Rides began. They went from Washington, D.C into Southern states.

  • University of Mississippi

    President Kennedy sent federal tropps to the University of Mississippi to quell riots. This allowed James Meredith, the schools first black student to attend.

  • Bombing

    Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama. Killed four young black girls.

  • Medgar Evers is killed

    Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is killed by a snipers bullet. Race riots began after.

  • I Have a Dream

    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers "I have a Dream" speech. Hundreds of thousands of people hear it at the march on Washington

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 declaring discrimination based on race illegal after 75-day long filibuster. After this, riots in Harlem, Philadelphia began.

  • Malcolm X assasinated (Black Panthers)

    Malcolm X was shot and killed. He lead the Black Panther Organization. This organization did use violence and self defense.

  • Voting rights act of 1965

    In 1965 the Voting rights act of 1965 was passed. This outlawed segregation, and protected voting rights.

  • Civil Rights act of 1968

    The Civil Rights act of 1968 was passed. This made sure all people had fair housing.

  • MLK Jr Assasinated

    Martin Luther King Jr. was assasinated in Memphis, Tennessee by James Earl Ray. After this the Poor Peoples March on Washingtion still went on.