Civil Rights Timeline

By pattil.cailyn20
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    Jim Crow Laws

  • Plessy v Ferguson

    A case that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation in public places

  • Brown v Board of education

    Outlawed racial segregation in public schools

  • Voting rights of 1965

    Prohibiting any racial discrimination in voting, no more tests stopping them from being able to vote

  • Emmitt Till

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    A protest that wanted an end to segregation in transportation. Rosa parks not giving up her seat.

  • Little Rock Nine

    Nine black students tried to attended a high schools but weren’t allowed at first.

  • Alabama state sit-in

    Nonviolent protest against segregation where they sate in places like restaurants

  • 1960 US presidential elections

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    Freedom Riders

    This was when people were riding busses until they stopped. They challenged the souths failure to enforce Supreme Court decision.

  • Fair Housing

    Stopped discrimination in housing based on Celine characteristics

  • Children Crusade

  • March on Washington

    It was a protest for jobs and equal rights and this was when MLK did his speech.

  • Black Panther

  • Detroit Riot

  • Assassination of MLK

  • Bloody Sunday