Civil Rights Timeline Portfolio

By catherinebloze

  • Brown V. Board of Education

    This battle was a landmark in the 1954 Supreme Court Case when the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. This was one of the cornerstones of the civil rights movement and helped create a precedent a "separate but equal" education.

  • Rosa Parks

    During this time, Rosa Parks refused t give up her seat to a white man, named Montgomery in an Alabama Bus. Her refusal prompted a year-long Montgomery bus boycott.

  • Martin Luther King Jr

    Sixty black pastors and civil right leaders from multiple states all gathered in Atlanta, Georgia to create a nonviolent protest against racial discrimination and segregation.

  • Little Rock Nine

    During this time, nine black students were blocked from integrating into Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Later on, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent federal troops to escort the students, but they were still harassed after leaving.

  • Eisenhower

    In 1957, Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act into law to help protect voter rights. This law allows federal prosecution of those who suppress another's right to vote.

  • African American College Students

    Four African American college students in Greensboro, North Carolina refused to leave a Woolworth's whites-only lunch counter without being served. These four African American students were inspired by the nonviolent protest of Gandhi.

  • Ruby Bridges

    Six-year-old Ruby Bridges was escorted by four armed federal marshalls as she became the first student to integrate William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. This girl's actions inspired Norman Rockwell's painting "The Problem We All Live With"

  • Bloody Sunday

    In Selma to Montgomery March, about 600 civil rights marchers walked to Selma, Alabama to Montgomery(the state's capital) in protest of black voter suppression. Afterwards, local police blocked and brutally attacked them. Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders lead two more marches and finally reached Montgomery on March 25.