Time+Line-African+Americans+during+the+Civil+Rights+Movement


 * 1954-**
 * This is the year that the //Brown vs. Board of Education// Supreme Court case declared that "separate but equal" was unconstitutional in schools. In other words, racial segregation was not allowed in schools, or schools were desegregated.
 * 1955-**
 * Emmit Till, little African American child is tortured for talking to a white woman in and "improper" way.
 * Claudette Colvin, 15 year old girl has the bus incident. Very similar to Rosa Parks.
 * Martin Luther King Jr. leads a the boycott of the Montgomery City Buses. He started this boycott with all of the fellow African Americans after Rosa Parks' incident.

Police Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor and others attack segregation protesters with fire hoses (very powerful). "Bloody Day" is when Martin Luther King Jr., and others lead a march from Selma to Montgomery. They protest for the death of a fellow civil rights worker Jimmie Lee Jackson. On this march, they cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma where many African American marchers are beaten by police. Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated at his hotel in Tennessee. Killed by James Earl Ray.
 * 1956**
 * Bus Boycott is over, ruled that bus segregation is unconstitutional.
 * 1957-**
 * Little Rock Nine starts. Nine black students try to integrate an Arkansas Public High School.
 * Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is formed by Martin Luther King Jr.
 * 1958**-
 * Ernest Green becomes the first black student of the Little Rock Nine's to graduate from Little Rock's Central High.
 * 1961**-
 * The Freedom Riders a group of African Americans from the Congress Of Racial Equality (CORE) intend on riding a bus from Washington D.C. to Alabama to try and fight against segregated travel. They are attacked.
 * 1963**-
 * 1965-**
 * 1968**-