Civil Rights Timeline

  • March on Washington

    March on Washington
    Who was involved: (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Phillip Randolph , Bayard Rustin)
    Where did this take place: Washington D.C
    What happened: Voting rights desegregation and fain employment
  • Brown VS Board of Education

    Brown VS Board of Education
    Who was involved: Oliver Brown - Father of Linda Brown - NAACP - Lawyer
    Where did this take place: Kansas - also South Carolina, Virginia, Delaware District of Columbia
    What happened: Over turn Plessy V Ferguson 9-0
  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference

    Southern Christian Leadership Conference
    Who was involved: Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
    Where did this take place: Atlanta, Georgia
    What happened: Coordinate the action of local protest groups throughout the South.
  • Little Rock 9

    Little Rock 9
    Who was involved: Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomus, Terrence Roberts Carlotta walls, Minnuean Braun, Gloria Ray, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Pattill o.
    Where did this take place: Central High school In little Rock, Arkansas
    What happened: President Dwight D. Eisenhower sending federal troops to protect the "Little Rock wine".
  • Greensboro Sit Ins

    Greensboro Sit Ins
    Who was involved: Four African American college students (Ezell Blair Jr, David Richmond , Franklin MoCam, Joseph McNeil
    Where did this take place: F.W Woolworth store in downtown Greensboro
    What happened: Purchased small Items and then sat down at the "whites only" lunch counter
  • Ruby Bridges

    Ruby Bridges
    Who was involved: Barbara Henry, Federal Mars hals, Protesters and parents
    Where did this take place: William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana
    What happened: Became first African American Student to integrate the Student after being selected under Federal desegregation order.
  • Freedom Riders

    Freedom Riders
    Who was involved: (James Farmer, John Lewis, Diane Nash)
    Where did this take place: Alabama, Mississippi
    What happened: They were all arrested in Jackson in the bus depot for violating segregation statues and were taken to jail
  • Civil Rights Act

    Civil Rights Act
    Who was involved: President Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr, John F. Kennedy, Congress
    Where did this take place: United States Congress
    What happened: The Civil Rights Act outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin ended segregation.
  • Assassination of Malcom X

    Assassination of Malcom X
    Who was involved: Nation of Islam( Talmadge Hayer, Norman 3x Butler , Thomas,
    15x Johnson.
    Where did this take place: Harlem, New York City at the Audubon Ballroom
    What happened: Man fired a sawed -off shot gun at Malcolm y hitting him in the chest two other men then fired hand guns, striked him multiple times pronounced dead shortly after at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital
  • Selma to Montgomery Marches ( Bloody Sunday)

    Selma to Montgomery Marches ( Bloody Sunday)
    Who was involved: Martin Luther King Jr, John Lewis, Coretta Scott king, Other Civil Rights Organ. President Lyndon B Johnson, state troops and Lau enforcement.
    Where did this take place: Selma, Alabama,
    What happened: Troops and Horsemen armed with clubs assaulted the Protestors Who then flee back to selma
  • Voting Rights Act

    Voting Rights Act
    Who was involved: President Lyndon B, Civil Right Leader, congress, opponents).
    Where did this take place: U.S Capital In Washington D.C).
    What happened: Was response to decades to systemic discrimination that prevented African American
  • Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr

    Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr
    Who was involved: Martin Luther Ving, Jumes Eurl Ray).
    Where did this take place: Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee.
    What happened: Martin Luther King Jr was shot dead white standing on a balcony outside his second floor room in the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee.
  • Murder of Emmett Till

    Murder of Emmett Till
    Who was involved: Roy Bryant and J.W. Milan
    Where did this take place: Money, Mississippi, In the Mississippi Delta region.
    What happened: Got Beaten Shot in the head, and his body was thrown Into the Tallahatchie River.
  • Rosa Parks and Bus Boycott

    Rosa Parks and Bus Boycott
    Who was involved: African American Community in Montgomery
    Where did this take place: Montgomery, Alabama
    What happened: She boarded a segregated Montgomery city bus after work and Sat in the "colored section!
    Got Her arrested point for African community