Civil Rights Movement

  • Slavery

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • 14th Amendment

  • 15th Amendment

  • World War II (US got involved)

  • President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802

  • President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802

  • Rosa Parks

  • Little Rock Nine

  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

  • Greensboro sit-ins

  • Freedom Riders

  • the March on Washington

  • Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964

  • Malcolm X was assassinated

  • Bloody Sunday

  • Voting Rights Act

  • Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated

  • Fair Housing Act