Civil Rights Events Timeline

Brown vs. Board of Education

Brown vs. Broad of Education

-1954

On May 17, 1954, Brown v. Board of Education, a crucial civil rights case, was decided. It was a crucial period in American history since it resulted in the desegregation of the country's public schools. On behalf of his daughter Linda Brown, an African American father named Oliver Brown sued the Topeka, Kansas, Board of Education. The Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment was allegedly violated by the racial segregation of public schools, according to the lawsuit that challenged the practice.

Some of the 1950 foods. Protesters in the streets.

Emmet Till

The sad incident involving Emmett Till took place in August 1955, and it had a big impact on the American civil rights movement. Emmett Till, an African American teenager from Chicago who was 14 years old, was visiting family in Money, Mississippi. He was charged with making unwanted advances or whistling at Carolyn Bryant, a white woman who was the wife of a business owner in the area. A few days later, on the evening of August 28, 1955, two white men named Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam kidnapped Till from his uncle's home. He was severely beaten, shot in the head, and his body was dumped in the Tallahatchie River.

Emmet Till

-1955

Emmet is on the right, only lived til he was 14.

Fahsion in the 1950s

Rosa Parks Bus Boycott

Beginning on December 5, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, the Rosa Parks bus boycott continued for over a year. It was a crucial turning point in the civil rights movement and helped to end racial segregation on public transit. On December 1, 1955, an African American woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus in Montgomery to a white person.

Rosa Parks/Montgomery Bus Boycott

-1955

Rock n Roll big part of Pop Culture in the 1950s.

Birmingham Riots

Birmingham Riots

-1963

Birmingham, Alabama, a city well recognized for its enduring segregation and racial tensions, experienced the Birmingham riots, also known as the Birmingham campaign or Birmingham movement, in the spring of 1963. The campaign, which was directed by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), as well as regional civil rights activists like Fred Shuttlesworth, used nonviolent direct action tactics to highlight the unfairness of segregation.

Malcolm X Assassination

The day of Malcolm X's murder was February 21, 1965. Malcolm X, formerly known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz but originally known as Malcolm Little, was a well-known civil rights advocate and a key member of the Nation of Islam, a black nationalist and religious group. Malcolm X was giving a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City on that tragic day. Three assailants stormed the platform as he was starting to speak and started shooting at him. Malcolm X suffered many gunshot wounds and tragically passed away on the spot.

Malcolm X Assassination-1965

First landing on the moon the 60s

The Black Panthers

The Black Panthers

-1966

A revolutionary socialist group called the Black Panther Party was established in Oakland, California, in October 1966. Its official name is the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The Black Panthers contributed significantly to the civil rights movement and the fight for racial equality in the United States, despite the fact that it wasn't an explicitly civil rights event. The enduring police brutality, socioeconomic disparities, and structural racism that African American communities had to deal with led to the formation of the Black Panther Party.