Unit #2: Civil Rights in America

Plessy v. Ferguson

May 18, 1896

Thurgood Marshal

Period: Jul 2, 1908 to Jan 24, 1993

Orville Faubus

Period: Jan 7, 1910 to Dec 14, 1994

Rosa Parks

Period: Feb 4, 1913 to Oct 24, 2005

Lester Maddox

Period: Sep 30, 1915 to Jun 15, 2003

George Wallace

Period: Aug 25, 1919 to Sep 13, 1998

Martin Luther King Jr.

Period: Jan 15, 1928 to Apr 4, 1968

Brown v. Board

May 17, 1954

Civil Disobidence

Oct 9, 1954

Mongomery Bus Boycott

Period: Dec 5, 1955 to Dec 20, 1956

Sit-ins

Feb 1, 1960