Civil Rights Timeline

Creation of the NAACP

Feb 12, 1909

African-American civil rights organization

Jackie Robinson Breaks the Color Barrier

Apr 15, 1947

• First African American who play in baseball major league.

Brown vs. Board of Education

May 17, 1954

• desegegrated in school by supreme court in 1954

The Murder of Emmitt Till

Aug 28, 1955

• He was killed brutally by white guys because he whistled to white woman

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Dec 1, 1955

• last till the next year
• Begin when Rosa Park refuse to give her seat to awhite passenger
• lead to desegregated

The Little Rock 9

Sep 4, 1957

• first 9 African American attend highschool in Little Rock Central High School

Ruby Bridges desegregate elementary school

Nov 14, 1960

• She is the first African- American who attend all white elementary school

Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Apr 16, 1963

• From Martin Luther King Jr. wrote while he is in Birmingham Jail Alabama after a non violent protest

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Jul 2, 1964

• ended segregation in public places

Assassination of Malcolm X

Feb 21, 1965

• He was shot by Nation of Islam members because he isn't with them anymore.
• He was shot in NYC, NY

Creation of the Black Panthers

Oct 1, 1966

• Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
• Political organization founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.

Thurgood Marshall Named Supreme Court Justice

Oct 2, 1967

First African American justice in Supreme court

Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Apr 4, 1968

• He got shot while standing on the balcony in Memphis Tennesse

Election of Barack Obama

Nov 8, 2008

• first black president