Civil Rights Movement1954 - 1968

The following photos will serve as a visual timeline of people and events that helped shape the history of the American society. The quest for social equality and justice was led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in a non-violent revolution. The Supreme Court’s decision to integrate public schools, Emmett Till’s murder, the arrest of Rosa Parks, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott led by Dr. King kicked off a chain of events that would change our society for the better. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 would eliminate legal segregation and discrimination in our nation. All of America’s people can now have equal opportunities to live in a society that will truly protect their civil rights.

Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas 1954

Open-Casket Photo of Emmett Till1955

Rosa Parks1914 - 2005

Ruby Bridges1960

First Black child to enter an all-white elementary school in the South

Little Rock NineSeptember 4, 1957

First Lunch Counter Sit-In1960

Woolworth’s – Greensboro, North Carolina

Freedom RidersAttacked by KKK in Alabama

1961

Freedom Rides1961

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Children’s MarchBirmingham, Alabama 1963

Children’s March 1963

16th Street Baptist Church

Victims of the KKKSept. 1963

August 28, 1963

President John F. Kennedy1917 - 1963

Andrew Goodman – James Cheyney – Michael SchwernerCivil Rights Workers murdered by KKK

Mississippi - 1964

Bloody SundaySelma to Montgomery March

1964

King’s AssassinationMemphis, Tennessee

April 4, 1968

President Barack Obama