civil rights timeline

  • congress of radical equality founded

    congress of radical equality founded
    civil rights protect individual
    students
    first action sit in
  • dodgers hire Jackie Robinson

    dodgers hire Jackie Robinson
    color line
    branch rickey hired him
    baseball was divided by color line
    Jackie crossed the colored line
  • Executive Order 9981

    Executive Order 9981
    segregation
    a executive order issued President Harry S. Truman
    to get rid of racial discrimination
    10% of the nation was african american back in this time
    blacks were allowed to join the army
  • brown v. board of education ruling

    brown v. board of education ruling
    Thrugood marshall
    public schools become de segregated
    agrued before the warren court
    linda brown wanted to go to a white school that was closer to home case was argued infront of the warren court
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964
    Plessy v. Ferguson
    president kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson
    lyndon finish pass kennedys bill after death
    bill signed on July 2, 1964
  • First lunch counter sit-in

    First lunch counter sit-in
    Jim Crow Laws & Sit-ins
    David Richmond Franklin McCain Ezell Blair Jr Joseph McNei
    leave Woolworth in Greensboro
    no photos were allowed in the dine in
    other whites eating there bugged in the action and made a big scene
  • Freedom Rides

    Freedom Rides
    Civil disobedience
    they were northern idealists both back and white
    John Robert Lewis
    there bus burst int flames after whites lit it on fire
    tires got slashed
  • Birmingham campaign

    Birmingham campaign
    SCLC
    MLK
    leader of activists Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth
    18 bombings
    on april 12th 50 were arrested
  • Integration of Central High School

    Integration of Central High School
    Little Rock Nine
    Orval Faubus the principal
    the 9 black students
    Minnijean Brown, Terrance Roberts, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Patillo, Gloria Ray, Jefferson Thomas
    they were constantly a target
    principal ordered the national guard to not let them enroll
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington
    NAACP
    MLK
    a march for jobs and freedom
    all pending on congress
    more than 250,000 marched
    was by far the biggest
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott (start)

    Montgomery Bus Boycott (start)
    Boycott & Rosa Parks
    rosa parks
    court hearing lasted 381 days long
    supreme Court ruled that segregation in public buses is unconstitutional
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Voting Rights Act of 1965
    disenfranchise
    Lyndon Johnson
    adopted after civil war
    discriminatory voting practices in most southern states
  • Black Panther Party Founded

    Black Panther Party Founded
    Black Power
    Malcolm X
    Bobby Seale
    Huey Newton
    founded the party held in Oakland california
  • Advocates for Black Nationalism

    Advocates for Black Nationalism
    Nation of Islam, Malcom X
    malcom X & MLK
    its a doctrine in order to separate white society
    Malcom X rejected the goals of early civil rights
    he later reached out to all race making a bigger call for freedom rights
    he was born in Omaha Nebraska his brith name was malcom little
  • Regents of the Univeristy of California v. Bakke

    Regents of the Univeristy of California v. Bakke
    Affirmative action
    Lewis Powell
    reached the supreme court
    it was remained deeply divided after hearing the disagreement
    also racial quotas were unconstitutional during this time
  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    Civil Rights Act of 1968
    discrimination
    President Johnson
    this describes the dwelling or renting or selling to any race religion
    or national orgin
    another name of this act would be the fair housing act
  • Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenberg Board of Education

    Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenberg Board of Education
    desegregation
    judge John Parker
    1.2% of blacks attended school
    later was raised to 32%]
    later lost patience with school districts and went steadily down
  • Watts Riot

    Watts Riot
    Kerner Commission &
    ghettos
    MLK
    over 30 people died
    one of the first serious clashes between police and blacks in the late 1970's