Civil Rights Timeline

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  • NAACP was founded

    ight racism and violence against all people of color in the United States.
  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Supreme court delivered unanimous segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional.
  • Rosa Parks Refuses to give up her bus seat

    Rosa Parks rejected a drivers order to leave a row of seats in the front for a White person
  • Sit-in at Woolworth’s lunch counter

    four African American college students refused to leave a whites-only Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
  • CORE “freedom ride”

    Civil rights activist who rode interstate buses into segregated Southern US
  • March on Washington

    advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans
  • Dr. King was thrown into Birmingham Jail

    judge granted city officials an injunction banning all anti-segregation protest activity in the city of Birmingham.