Civil rights timeline

By ColbyBath65

  • Emmett Till’s Murder

    Emmett Till’s Murder
    Emmett Till was a 14-year-old black boy who was lynched in 1955, he was accused of flirting with a white woman, Carolyn Bryant. He was taken by her husband and beaten, and shot in the head before his body was dumped in a River. His mother decided on an open-casket funeral in to show the world the how terrible the violence on her son was. The two killers were convicted and received no punishment.

  • Creation of the Montgomery Improvement Association

    Creation of the Montgomery Improvement Association
    The Montgomery Improvement Association was made in 1955 to hopefully organize to make the Montgomery Bus Boycott after the arrest of Rosa Parks. This was another protest led by Martin Luther King Jr. This brought the black community together to fight segregation.

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott
    The Montgomery Bus Boycott began in December 1955, when Rosa Parks, a black woman, was persecuted for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Alabama. After this African American residents made a boycott of the bus system, led by Martin Luther King Jr. This lasted for over a year, Despite facing challenges and violent white people, the boycott led to a Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation on public buses Illegal.

  • Freedom Rides

    Freedom Rides
    This was a civil rights protest in which different groups of races, they rode bushes though the southern United States and went against discriminatory laws. They were faced with a lot of violence

  • Birmingham Movement

    Birmingham Movement
    The Birmingham Movement, led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963, was a civil rights campaign in Birmingham, Alabama. It was intended to end segregation through nonviolent protests. The movement got recognized all over the world. Dr. King was arrested during the campaign which led to his famous "Letter from Birmingham Jail."

  • Mississippi freedom summer

    Mississippi freedom summer
    Mississippi Freedom summer was a voting registration drive, this was designed to increase how many black voters there were in the southern parts of the United States. This was made by civil rights protesters and many volunteers, many people, even whites that stood for it were killed and faced violence.