Civil rights timeline

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

  • Brown v. board of Ed

  • SCLC

    SCLC organization was connected to black churches MLK was president focused on non violent strategy on citizenship, school efforts to desegregate communities, played key roles on the march on Washington 1963 and Selma voting rights campaign.
  • Lil rock nine

    Nine black teenager are the first to attend Little Rock’s central high school they were abused in the school and eventually had a military escort to get them from class to class.
  • Ruby bridges

    She was black one of four blacks that passed a hard test to go to a white school and she was escorted by US Marshalls to be the only student to be taught by one teacher.