Civil Rights Movement Timeline
Category: History
Updated: 4 months ago
Contributors
Created byAdriana Hall
Attachments
Events
President Harry Truman issues Executive Order 9981 to end segregation in the Armed Services.Brown v. Board of EducationEmmett Till murdered in Mississippi for allegedly flirting with a white womanRosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama busThe Little Rock Nine are blocked from integrating into Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, ArkansasEisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957 into law to help protect voter rights.Four African American college students in Greensboro, North Carolina, refuse to leave a Woolworth's "whites only" lunch counter without being served.Six-year-old Ruby Bridges is escorted by four armed federal marshals as she becomes the first student to integrate William Frantz Elementary School in Now Orleans.More than 1,000 Black school children march through Birmingham, Alabama, in a demonstration against segregation.Governor George C. Wallace stands in a doorway at the University of Alabama to block two Black students from registering.Approximately 250,000 people take part in The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.A bomb at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, kills four young girls and injures several other people prior to Sunday services.President Lydon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, preventing employment discrimination due to race, color, sex, religion or national origin.Black religious leader Malcolm X is assassinated during a rally by members of the Nation of Islam.Bloody Sunday.President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to prevent the use of literacy tests as a voting requirement.Periods
Sixty Black pastors and civil rights leaders meet in Atlanta, Georgia to coordinate nonviolent protests against racial discrimination and segregation.Throughout 1961, Black and White activists, known as Freedom Riders, took bus trips through the American South to protest segregated bus terminals and attempted to use "whites-only" restrooms and lunch counters.
Comments