HannahsBananas' Timeline

April 5th, 1856
Birth of Booker T. Washington.

July 2nd, 1908
Thurgood Marshal is born.

August 18th, 1920
The 19th Amendment is ratified.

January 20th, 1953
President Dwight D. Eisenhower's took office.

May 17th, 1954
The unanimous ruling in the Brown v. Board of Education case that segregation in school is unconstitutional.

December 1st, 1955
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus to a white man.

January & February, 1957
Martin Luther King Jr, Charles K Steele, and Fred L. Shuttlesworth create the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, with MLK as it's first president.

April, 1960
The SNCC is founded.

Spring and Summer, 1961
"Freedom Riders " as they were known as, began to take bus trips all over the Southern United states in order to test out the de-segregation laws.

November 22nd, 1963
President John F. Kennedy was assasinated.

July 2nd, 1964
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed and passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964

February 21st, 1965
Malcolm X is assasinated.

August 10th, 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is passed by congress.

April 19th, 1967
The term, "Black Power " is coined by Stokely Carmichael

April 4th, 1968
James Earl Ray assassinates Martin Luther King Jr.