Civil Rights - Timeline

Brown V. Board of Education On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.”

Montgomery Bus Boycott To protest Parks' arrest and the continued segregation of Montgomery's bus lines, they began to boycott the bus system

Little Rock Integration In a key event of the American Civil Rights Movement, nine black students enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock

Sit In Campaign a non-violent protest by young African-American students at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina,

Freedom Rides Freedom Riders were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who protested segragated buss terminas

March on Washington March on Washington was a march for Jobs and Freedom

Freedom Summers During the summer of 1964, hundreds of Northern college students traveled to Mississippi to help register black voters and encourage participation in the Civil Rights movement.

Selma-Montgomery protest local resistance to black voter registration in Dallas County, Alabama.

Ole Mississippi Integration riots erupted on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford where locals, students, and committed segregationists had gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran

Dr. KIng's Assasination Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated by a sniper's bullet while standing on the second- floor balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.