Timeline of the Civil Rights Movement

By jayme_condry

  • Plessy vs. Ferguson

    upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality.

  • The Integration of Major League Baseball

    debut day of Jackie Robinson in to Major League Baseball in 1947

  • The Integration of the Armed Forces

    President Harry S. Truman signed this executive order establishing the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity.

  • Sweatt v. Painter

    A U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the ''separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case "Plessy v. Ferguson"

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Immigration of schools

  • The Bus Boycott Of Montgomery, Alabama

    A civil-rights protest during which African Americans refused to rid city buses in Montgomery, Alabama. - Rosa Parks

  • The Integration of Little Rock High School

    Nine black students enrolled at a formerly all whites school. Later Pres. Eisenhower sent in troops to escort the nine student into the school.

  • The Civil Rights Act of 1957

    A federal voting rights bill, was the first civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights of 1875

  • The Greensboro Four

    David Richmond, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr., and Joseph McNeil leave the Woolworth in Greensboro, N.C. where they initiated a lunch-counter sit-in to protest segregation.

  • The Freedom Rides of 1961

    Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961

  • Twenty Fourth Amendment

    Right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other elections for President or Vice President.

  • Integration of the University of Mississippi

    "Ole Miss Integration" riots erupted on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford, where locals, students, and committed segregationists had gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith

  • Integration of the University of Alabama

    Facing federalzed Alabama National Guard Troops, Alabama Govenor George Wallace ends his blockade of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and allows two African American students to enroll.

  • March on Washington

    massive protest march, when 250,000+ people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in washington, D.C. Also known as the march on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

  • Assassination of John F. Kennedy

    Shortly afternoon on November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaze in downtown Dallas, Texas.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement.

  • Assassination of Malcolm X

    in New York City, Malcolm X, an African American nationalist and religious leader, is assassinated by rival Black Muslims while addressing his organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights.

  • March on Selma, Alabama

    Part of a series of civil rights protests that occurred in 1965 in Alabama, a Southern State with deeply entrenched racist policies.

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    signed into law by President Johnson, aimed to over come legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

  • Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

    American clergyman and civil rights leader, was a fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

  • The Passage of Title IX

    Education Amendments is enacted by Congress and is signed into law by Richard Nixon.

  • Appointment of the First Woman Justice of the Supreme Court

    Sandra Day O' Conner - served from her appointment in 1981 by President Reagan until her retirement in 2006. She was the first woman to serve on the Court.

  • Elimination of Combat Restriction for Women

    combat exclusion was lifted from aviation positions by Secretary of Defense Les Aspin

  • The Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama

    44th President of the United States

  • The Democratic Party Nomination of Hillary Clinton