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Civil Rights Timeline

By TheRizzler-Clayton

  • Executive Order 9981 signed by President Truman

    Executive Order 9981 signed by President Truman
    Executive Order 9981 was an executive order issued on July 26, 1948, by President Harry S. Truman. It abolished discrimination "on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin" in the United States Armed Forces.

  • Rosa Parks Arrest

    Rosa Parks Arrest
    Rosa Parks invigorated the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. Parks' arrest on December 1, 1955 launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott by 17,000 black citizens

  • Civil Rights Act of 1957 Was Passed

    Civil Rights Act of 1957 Was Passed
    The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875. The bill was passed by the 85th United States Congress and signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on September 9, 1957