USA: civil rights 1954-75

  • Period: to

    President Eisenhower

  • Brown vs Topeka

    Brown vs Topeka
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott
  • Murder of Emmett Till

    Murder of Emmett Till
  • Little Rock 9

    Little Rock 9
  • Civil Rights Act 1957

  • Greensboro Sit-ins

    Greensboro Sit-ins
  • Freedom Riders +Anniston bombing

    Freedom Riders +Anniston bombing
  • Period: to

    President Kennedy

  • The James Meredith case

    The James Meredith case
  • Period: to

    President Johnson

  • March on Birmingham

    March on Birmingham
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington
  • Civil Rights Act 1964

  • Freedom Summer

    Freedom Summer
  • Mississippi murders

  • March on Selma

    3 separate marches, ended in Montgomery, Alabama
    Bloody Sunday
  • Voting Rights Act 1965

  • Malcolm X assassinated

    Malcolm X assassinated
  • Black Power entered the mainstream

    Black Power entered the mainstream
  • Black Panther Party created

    Black Panther Party created
    Patrol the pigs.
  • 1968 Mexico Olympics

    1968 Mexico Olympics
  • Kerner Report

  • MLK assassinated

    MLK assassinated
  • Period: to

    President Nixon

  • Period: to

    President Ford