civil rights timeline

By kaitlynweygand

  • Plessy V Ferguson

    Plessy V Ferguson
    Louisiana had a law that African-Americans and whites must take separate railway cars. Homer Adolph Plessy went on a white railway car and refused to move, he was arrested.

  • Emmett TIll Murder

    Emmett TIll Murder
    Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi went to a grocery store and was accused of flirting with a white cashier. 4 days later, Emmett was kidnapped, beaten and shot by 2 white men. The jury acquitted them..

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott
    ended segregated busing.

  • Little Rock Crisis

    Little Rock Crisis
    9 African- american students from Little Rock are chosen to go to Central High School. Governor Faubus didnt want the 9 students to attend Central High School so he made the National Guard Surround the school to prevent them from attending. From that, president Eisenhower got the 101st Airborne Division to protect the students.

  • Sit in's

    Sit in's
    In Greensboro NC, David Richmond, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair, and Joseph McNeil go to Woolworth's "white only" counter and try to be served.

  • Integration of Ole Miss

    Integration of Ole Miss
    this was fought between the southern segregationist civilians and federal and state forces. protesters were protesting against James Meredith.

  • MLK Jr. Marches in Birmingham

    MLK Jr. Marches in Birmingham
    nonviolent direct action and through the media

  • Freedom Summer

    Freedom Summer
    tried to register as many African-American as possible in mississippi, this was a volunteer campaign in the United States.

  • Civil RIghts Act

    Civil RIghts Act
    outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

  • 1967 Race RIots

    1967 Race RIots
    violent public disorder that turned into a civil disturbance in Detroit, Michigan.