Picture This: Civil Rights Graphic Timeline

Event Emmett Tills Murder

Date: August 1955 Location: Money MI Who: Emmett, Shopkeeper Where: Woods What/Why: Beaten to death because whistle at white women

Rosa Parks Arrest

*December 1955 * Montgomery, AL * Rosa Parks, * Buss * Parks, refused to give up her seat to a white male. She was arrested * Year long Boycott of Bus system

Little Rock Nine

*September 1957 *Little Rock, AK * Ernest Green, Elizabeth

Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, Terrence Robers, Carlotta LaNier, Minnijean Brown, Gloria Karlmark, Thelma Mothershed, and Melba Pattillo. *The NAACP had registered nine black students to attend the previously all-white Little Rock Central High, selected on the criteria of excellent grades and

attendance.

Greensboro sit-ins

*February 1st, 1960 * Greensboro, NC Woolworth's store * Four university freshmen Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, Jibreel Khazan, and David Richmond. * Woolworth's store * Nonviolent Sit-ins, in order to desegregate lunch counter. * July 25, 1960 Woolworth's chain was desegregated, serving blacks and whites alike.
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Freedom Riders

* May 1961 * Alabama * Non-Violent Activist * Bus terminals * Mobs of angry white southerners firebombed, beat and slashed the tires of freedom riders, for trying to challenge Jim Crow laws (segregation). *May 3rd 1963 * Birmingham, AL * Parker High School senior Walter Gadsden *Gadsen (an observer) was attacked by Police dogs. *Photo made the front page of the New York Times, on May 4th 1963

Birmingham Campaign

Martin Luther King I have a Dream speech.

*August 28, 1963 * Washington, D.C * March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom * 17 minute Speech, "I Have a Dream" became one of the greatest speeches in American history. The March, and especially King's speech, helped put civil rights at the top of the liberal political agenda and influenced the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.