Timeline: US Civil Rights Movement | Timetoast

Period: Dec 8, 1941 to May 8, 1945

Black men fight for America in World War Two
Period: Mar 25, 1945 to Mar 25, 1965

Jim Crow Laws

The Jim Crow Laws were designed to segregate white and black/coloured people.
May 17, 1954

Brown vs Board of Education

This was a United States Supreme Court case in where the court decided state laws that required separate schools for white and black people were unconstitutional.
Aug 1, 1955

Emmet Till murdered

A 14 year old boy named Emmet Till was brutally beaten and murdered for saying "Bye baby" to a white woman.
Dec 1, 1955

Montgomery Bus Boycott
Dec 1, 1955

Civil Rights Movement Begins
May 14, 1961

Freedom Rides start

The freedom rides were rides where white people sat with black people. There was no segregation.
Aug 28, 1963

March in Washington
Aug 28, 1963

Martin Luther King's " I had a dream" speech
Oct 14, 1964

Martin Luther King gets Nobel Peace Prize
Feb 21, 1965

Malcolm X asassinated
Oct 15, 1966

Black Panther Party founded
Period: Jan 1, 1968 to Dec 31, 1973

Demise of Black Panther Party
Mar 28, 1968

End of Civil Rights Movement Era
Apr 4, 1968

Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated