Civil Rights Timeline
The Greensboro sit-in were one of many events that comprised a time in America's history known as the Civil Rights Movement, a series of happenings in which people came together to end racial discrimination.
Create a timeline using the information below as well as the website Read Write Think and the images from Student Drive and Clip Art / Civil Rights Movement.
1954 May 17th: The Supreme Court rules segregation in public schools unconstitutional in the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. This ruling allows black and white children to attend school together.
1955 December 1st: Rosa Parks, an African American seamstress, refuses to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa's bravery sparks the Montgomery Bus Boycotts, during which African American citizens refuse to ride city buses for more than one year.
1956 December 21: Buses become desegregated after a supreme court ruling.
1957 January: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. helps establish the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and becomes its first president. The SCLC serves as a driving force in the Civil Rights Movement, using nonviolence as its basis.
1957 September: Nine black students in Little Rock, Arkansas, enroll in Central High School despite being barred from entry by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus. When President Eisenhower sends in the National Guard, the students, who come to be known as the "Little Rock Nine," are allowed to enter.
1960 February 1st: The Greensboro sit-ins begin.
1960 April: Ella Baker helps found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) at Shaw University.
1960 July 25-26: Woolworth's in Greensboro is desegregated.
1962 October 1st: President John F. Kennedy sends thousands of federal troops to help drive back angry mobs at the University of Mississippi, where James Meredith is the first African American student to register.
1963 April 16th: After being arrested and put in jail during a protest in Birmingham, Alabama, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. writes his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" in which he underscores the importance of justice.
1963 May 2-4: Thousands of schoolchildren in Birmingham, Alabama, march in the Children's Crusade, a protest of the arrest and jailing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
1963 August 28: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his world-famous "I Have a Dream" speech while hundreds of thousands of listeners gather at the Lincoln Memorial as part of the March on Washington.
1964 July 2nd: The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlaws racial segregation in schools and public places, is singed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Create a timeline using the information below as well as the website Read Write Think and the images from Student Drive and Clip Art / Civil Rights Movement.
1954 May 17th: The Supreme Court rules segregation in public schools unconstitutional in the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. This ruling allows black and white children to attend school together.
1955 December 1st: Rosa Parks, an African American seamstress, refuses to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa's bravery sparks the Montgomery Bus Boycotts, during which African American citizens refuse to ride city buses for more than one year.
1956 December 21: Buses become desegregated after a supreme court ruling.
1957 January: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. helps establish the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and becomes its first president. The SCLC serves as a driving force in the Civil Rights Movement, using nonviolence as its basis.
1957 September: Nine black students in Little Rock, Arkansas, enroll in Central High School despite being barred from entry by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus. When President Eisenhower sends in the National Guard, the students, who come to be known as the "Little Rock Nine," are allowed to enter.
1960 February 1st: The Greensboro sit-ins begin.
1960 April: Ella Baker helps found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) at Shaw University.
1960 July 25-26: Woolworth's in Greensboro is desegregated.
1962 October 1st: President John F. Kennedy sends thousands of federal troops to help drive back angry mobs at the University of Mississippi, where James Meredith is the first African American student to register.
1963 April 16th: After being arrested and put in jail during a protest in Birmingham, Alabama, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. writes his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" in which he underscores the importance of justice.
1963 May 2-4: Thousands of schoolchildren in Birmingham, Alabama, march in the Children's Crusade, a protest of the arrest and jailing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
1963 August 28: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his world-famous "I Have a Dream" speech while hundreds of thousands of listeners gather at the Lincoln Memorial as part of the March on Washington.
1964 July 2nd: The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlaws racial segregation in schools and public places, is singed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.