Civil Rights Timeline

By Albert Nilo

  • Brown v. Board of Education

  • Murder of Emmett Till

  • Rosa Parks and the Bus Boycott

  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference

    The SCLC was an organization linked to the black churches. 60 black ministers were pivotal in organizing civil right activism. Martin Luther King Jr was elected President. They focused its non violent strategy on citizenship, schools and efforts to desegregate individual cities. It played key roles in the March on Washington in 1963 and the Voting Rights Campaign and March to Montgomery in 1965.

  • Little Rock 9

  • Greensboro Sit ins

  • Ruby Bridges

  • Freedom Riders

  • March on Washington

  • Civil Rights Act (1964)

  • Assassination of Malcom X

  • Selma to Montgomery Marches (Bloody Sunday)

  • Voting Rights Act (1965)

  • Assassination of Martin Luther King