Civil Rights Timeline Mackenzie, Brandon

Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycotts

Dec 1, 1955

Rosa Parks was arrested and fined for refusing to give up her seat for a white man. People started to boycott the Montgomery public buses the first day of Rosa Parks court hearing. Her hearing ended up lasting 381 days.

The Little Rock Nine

Sep 4, 1957

A small group of African Americans got enrolled into the Little Rock Central High School. { http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/central-high-school-integration }

The Murder of Emmett Till

Aug 28, 1958

A 14 year old boy, Emmett Till, was accused of flirting with an older white woman. She was 21 and when she told her husband what happened, him and his brother went out to find Emmett. They ended up beating him up, shooting him, and then threw his body into a river. { http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-death-of-emmett-till }

The Greensboro Four

Feb 1, 1960

There were 4 freshmen boys who went to a diner for lunch at Woolworth's. They had sat at the "whites-only" counter and they even refused to leave the building even after they had been denied service.

The Murder of Medgar Evers

Jun 12, 1963

He was shot to death by a white supremacist, right outside his home in his driveway. { http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/medgar-evers-assassinated }

1963 March on Washington

Aug 28, 1963

Over 200,000 Americans had gathered in Washington D.C. to march for jobs and freedom for the minority. { http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/march-on-washington }

Birmingham Church Bombing

Sep 15, 1963

Before the services for church that day, a bomb had gone off and blew up in the church. 4 young girls were killed and there were a lot of other people injured. { http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/birmingham-church-bombing }

The Murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner

Jun 21, 1964

James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were all civil rights workers. Each were kidnapped and murdered because the were working with the "Freedom Summer" campaign which helped with trying to get African Americans to register and vote in the South. { http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/slain-civil-rights-workers-found }

Loving vs. Virginia

Jan 1, 1967

Richard Loving and Mildred Loving, both sentenced to a year in prison because they married each other. Richard was a white man and Mildred was a black woman. Their imprisonment was declared unconstitutional. The Supreme Court had then overruled the Pace vs Alabama which ended all of the race based legal restrictions on marriage. { https://www.aclu.org/feature/loving }

Allan Bakke Case

Jun 28, 1978

Allan Bakke was denied twice into a medical school because of his race. They had evidence that his scores were much higher than others who were accepted. He argued that it went against the Civil Rights Act , equal protection and the 14th amendment. The Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional and had him accepted into it. They then issued that race was now to be included in the decision for allowing a student into college. Colleges had to reserve 16 out of 100 seats for the minority.