Important Events that have Impacted

the Civil Rights Movement

May 17, 1954 June-Aug, 1964
Brown vs. Board Freedom Summer
A law is made Black People
stating that schools registered to vote.
are no longer
segregated.

Sept 4, 1957 Aug 28, 1955

Little Rock Nine Emmett Till, 14, was
9 black students brutally murdered
entered Central High after allegedly
School, b4ing flirting with a white
mobbed by white woman, while
people. visiting family in
MS.

Feb 1960, May 4th, 1961

Lunch Counter Sit Freedom Riders were
Ins, African a group of activists
American students who rode into
sat in a segregated segregated Southern
diner and refused to US, to protest the
leave Supreme Court

“Darkness cannot Sept 15, 1963 Dec 5, 1955

drive out Birmingham Church Rosa Parks was
“If we have
darkness, only Bombing, white arrested after not
supremacists bombed giving her seat up to honestly
light can do that. an all black church a white man, causing
Hate cannot while in session. the Bus Boycott acknowledged our
drive out hate, painful but shared
only love can do past, then we can
that.” Who is Emmett Till? have reconciliation”
-Martin Luther How many people were -Elizabeth Eckford
King Jr. apart of the Bus Boycott?

I feel that this movement will continue for a long time. Zoey Ault
There will always be someone against this movement.