Civil Rights Timeline

By MatthewRodriguez108

  • 13th Amendment

    Slavey was outlawed in the United States unless for punishment

  • 14th Amendment

    Former slaves and all African Americans in the United States granted equal rights and citizenship

  • 15th Amendment

    The right to vote of all U.S. citizens shall not be denied by the United States

  • Tuskegee Institute Created

    Founded by Booker T. Washington to promote the economic progress of his race

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    The Supreme Court ruled Separate but equal was constitutional discriminating against colored people

  • NAACP Founded

    Advance the priorities of colored people by unity under an organization

  • 19th Amendment

    The right to vote of any U.S. citizen shall not be denied because of gender

  • Executive Order 9981

    The military is desegregated

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Helped to integrate schools in the U.S. and helped defeat the separate but equal laws

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Colored people boycotted the public buses and showed their retaliation to segregated seating on the buses.

  • Southern Christian Leadership conference formed

    A civil rights organization founded as an offshoot of the Montgomery Improvement Association

  • Little Rock 9

    Nine colored students enrolled at Little Rock Central High School who were initially denied by the state governor

  • Civil Rights Act 1957

    Ensured the protection of all citizens right to vote

  • Greensboro sit ins

    A civil rights act in which colored students staged a sit in at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina

  • Freedom Riders

    Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated United States

  • Dr. King's letter from jail

    A letter after Martin Luther King Jr where he writes about defending his advocacy for nonviolent protest in as resistance to racism

  • March on Washington

    A march in Washington to advocate the rights of colored people in the U.S.

  • March from Selma

    Marchers protested peacefully for the rights of colored people across America

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Eliminated all abilities for southern states to make voting harder for people of color such as literacy tests before voting

  • Martin Luther King Jr. Assasinated

    Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee at 6:01 PM