Civil Rights Timeline Danielle Carlini

By daniellecarlini

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education
    1. The court case was Plessy v. Ferguson 2.What happened in Topeka Kansas was a man named Oliver Brown, a parent of a child who was denied acceptance into one of the Topeka schools, claimed that they violated Constitution's Equal Protection Clause because they had segregated schools. The Federal District said that the schools were equal enough to be constitutional.
    2. The result was the court ruled separate but equal facilities are unconstiutional.

  • Emmett Louis Till

    Emmett Louis Till
    The murder of Emmett Louis Till was in Money, Mississippi. He was visiting there in the summer when he approcohed a white women and talked to her. Later that night he was taken by two white men and brutally beaten to death so that you couldn't even tell it was him when they found the body. His killers were pronounced innocent but confessed about it later on.

  • Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat

    Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat
    1. Rosa Parks was coming home from work on a white and black bus. The law stated that the front of the bus was only for whites and the rest of the seats in the back were for the blacks. But if there was no more room for a white person in the white section, the bus driver could ask black people to give up their seat and stand. So when the bus driver asked them to move Parks refused to. Later this lead to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
    2. The result was Parks was arrested.

  • Banning of segregated buses in Montegomery

    Banning of segregated buses in Montegomery
    This happened in Montgomery, Alabama. After Rosa Parks refused to get up for a white man on a bus, people began boycotting the buses. Finally after a year, the segregated buses were no longer segregated and the blacks could ride them again.

  • Events of Little Rock, Arkansas

    Events of Little Rock, Arkansas
    1. What happened was nine black students were admitted into the Little Rock High School. The first day a white angry mob & Arkansas National Guard blocked the nine's entry into the school. The president then stepped in and brought troops to Little Rock to help the nine got to school easier. Ernest Green became to first black student to graduate.
    2. The government brought in troops to go everywhere with the nine students to make sure they were always safe.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

    Civil Rights Act of 1957
    1. President Eisenhower passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957
    2. The act stated that blacks had the right to vote.

  • Attack of the Freedom Riders

    Attack of the Freedom Riders
    1. What the freedom riders did was they rode buses through the south and protested about segregation.
    2. They were organized my the Congress of racial Equality (CORE)
    3. There were both African Americans and white civil right activists were in the Freedom riders.

  • James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss

    James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss
    1. What happened was Meredith was first accepted into Ole Miss but then was denied when they found out his race.
    2. The government got involved when Meredith started a law suit with the state court not ruling in his favor but the Supreme Court on his side

  • Medgar Evers Assassinated

    Medgar Evers Assassinated
    1. Medgar Evers was a civil rights activist and worked with the NAACP. He also worked with segregating Ole Miss.
    2. The events that happened was he was part of the NAACP and attempted to desegregate Ole Miss and was in several protests about segregation. After receiving several threats he was murdered by Byron De La Beckwith.

  • The March on Washington

    The March on Washington
    1. The purpose was a rally of jobs and freedom for African Americans.
    2. The famous speech was "I have a Dream" by Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964
    1. President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
    2. The act ended the segregation in public schools and ended discrimination in jobs.

  • The rev. James Reeb

    The rev. James Reeb
    This took place in Selma Alabama. What happened a white civil rights activist was a volunteer for the Selma March was brutally beaten to death by white segregationists.

  • March to Selma

    March to Selma
    1. It was organized to get black's the right to vote.
    2. The marchers were met by state and local authorities.
    3. The outcome was the marchers had won after three days of walking to Montgomery.

  • Voting rights act of 1965

    Voting rights act of 1965
    This event happened in Washington D.C. Congress finally passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 allowing blacks to vote equally.

  • Killed after getting a promotion

    Killed after getting a promotion
    Wharlest Jackson was killed in Natchez, Mississippi after getting a promotion from a white job by a bomb planted in his truck.

  • Thurgood Marshall first black Supreme Court Justice

    Thurgood Marshall first black Supreme Court Justice
    1. He was first a legal counsel for the NAACP.
    2. I think this was monumental because it was the first time an African American became a Supreme Court Justice so it should some equality between whites and blacks.

  • The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King

    The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King
    1. Martin had gotten a lot of hate regarding the way he was going about things. Also got hate for racist whites. He was in Memphis Tennessee to support a sanitation workers’ strike. He was on the second floor of a hotel when he was shot in the neck.
    2. It had such an impact on the blacks and whites because he was such a big impact on the civil rights movement.