Civil rights timeline

  • Jim Crow laws

    Jim Crow laws
    the laws the south used against the colored because they weren’t slaves anymore and couldn’t give black people being a citizen
  • WwII

    WwII
    the segregation that was used against the military and the Tuskegee airman was one of the most successful things for black people but the people were arrested
  • Ex order 9811

    Ex order 9811
    the law that ends segregation in the military
  • brown v board

    brown v board
    the lawsuit used to intergrate schools and end segregation in the schools
  • Montgomery bus boycott

    Montgomery bus boycott
    The boycott from Rosa parks to not ride the buses in Montgomery
  • little rock 9

    little rock 9
    9 black students trying to attend high school but being attacked but being stopped by being attacked this happened until the school closed for not going for the intergration of schools
  • Freedom riders

    Freedom riders
    A bus full of people going into the Deep South to protest against segregation but in the way there one of the busses was burned down by the kkk
  • The march of Washington

    The march of Washington
    the march that made everyone who was against segregation and heard mlk talk https://youtu.be/vP4iY1TtS3s?feature=shared
  • The Birmingham protest

    The Birmingham protest
    mlk and others went to burmingham to end segregation in there but having mlk and a lot to people arrested to where they used dogs and fire hoses to stop the protests which ended up in television
  • The civil rights of 64

    The civil rights of 64
    the president Lyndon Johnson signed the civil rights for making segregation illegal
  • Bloody Sunday

    Bloody Sunday
    the day black people arched down to Selma to get voting rights but was attacked by policemen in the bridge and some were really injured
  • Mlk assassination

    Mlk assassination
    in 1968 Memphis there was mlk staying at a hotel and was shot by a sniper
  • The fair housing act

    The fair housing act
    Just a few days after mlk was assassinatied Johnson made the fair housing act to end discrimination against race, gender and religion