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The kkk is a white supremacist group, The kkk hated African americans

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The 14th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868, and granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.

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In 1870 African Americans were legally allowed to vote. This was a huge step for the movement because it gave them more rights.

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Plessy v. Ferguson , 163 U.S. 537 (1896), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S.

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In 1909 the NAACP was created to help stop discrimination towards African American citizens.

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The supreme court rules that school segregation is unconstitutional. overruling Plessy v. Ferguson, the case that established separate but equal.

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Voting Rights Act, U.S. legislation (August 6, 1965) that aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States.

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In 1955 Till was murdered by 2 white men after talking with a white woman. These 2 white men were not punished because an all white jury was racist.

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Rosa parks was arrested for not giving up her seat. This began the Montgomery boycott, This happened in Alabama

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The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. The boycott took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, and is regarded as the first large-scale U.S. demonstration against segregation.

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The US supreme court rules that segregation of Montgomery Alabama buses is unconstitutional. Calls for massive resistance to the supreme court.

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Martin Luther king was a big participant in the civil rights movement.

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in 1957 Martin Luther King helped found the SCLC. Martin Luther Kind also heads the SCLC and the group is now organized.

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In 1957 Orval Rubus uses nation guard to block 9 black students from attending little rock high school. This lead to a court order. president Eisenhower sends in federal troops to ensure compliance.

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There was an election Dwight D. Eisenhower won. 4 African American college students hold a sit in to interrogate a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro.

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Diane went on to become very active in the movement and was arrested for her efforts to desegregate a lunch counter in North Carolina. She also helped organize and lead the Freedom Rides in 1961.

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In 1961 African Americans rode buses around the south protesting segregation on public transportation. Jim Farmer was one of the leaders of the Freedom Riders Protest

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in 1963 Martin Luther King gave his I have a dream speech to the public. He gave many other speeches and helped the community. He was later assassinated in 1968

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In January of 1963, following his election as Governor of Alabama, George Wallace famously stated in his inaugural address: "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."

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The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, also known as simply the March on Washington or The Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, August 28, 1963. The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans.

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Four girls are killed and 14 injured in a bomb blast at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
Riots break out, and two African-American boys, Virgil Ware, 13, and Johnny Robinson, 16, are also killed. In all, at least 20 people are injured from the initial bombing and the ensuing riots.

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1964: Three civil rights activists found dead

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1964: Three civil rights activists found dead

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The bodies of three civil rights workers missing for six weeks have been found buried in a partially constructed dam near Philadelphia, Mississippi. Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation found the three young men two white and one black man about six miles from the town in a wooded area near where they were last seen on the night of 21 June.

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The Watts riots, sometimes referred to as the Watts Rebellion or Watts Uprising, took place in the Watts neighborhood and its surrounding areas of Los Angeles from August 11 to 16, 1965. On August 11, 1965, Marquette Frye, a 21-year-old African American man, was pulled over for drunken driving. After he failed a field sobriety test, officers attempted to arrest him. Marquette resisted arrest, with assistance from his mother, Rena Frye, and a physical confrontation ensued in which Marquette was struck in the face with a baton. Meanwhile, a crowd of onlookers had gathered. Rumors spread that the police had kicked a pregnant woman who was present at the scene. Six days of civil unrest followed, motivated in part by allegations of police abuse. Nearly 14,000 members of the California Army National Guard helped suppress the disturbance, which resulted in 34 deaths and over $40 million in property damage.[7][8] It was the city's worst unrest until the Rodney King riots of 1992.

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This has to do with the I Have A Dream Speech. This was where nearly 200,000 people march in Washington D.C while MLK gave his famous speech.

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Martin Luther King Jr won the Nobel Prize which awards the most helpful person to people. He won this because all of the things he did during the movement.

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One of the lawyers who helped win the Brown V. Board Of Education court case was the first African American selected into the supreme court. (1967)

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The work of A. Philip Randolph as a civil rights and social activist spanned more than 50 years, from the Harlem Renaissance and through the modern civil rights movement. Randolph began his career as an activist in 1917 when he ​became president of the National Brotherhood of Workers of America. This union organized Black shipyard and dockworkers throughout the Virginia Tidewater area.

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James Farmer Jr. established the Congress of Racial Equality in 1942. The organization was established to fight for equality and racial harmony through nonviolent practices.
In 1961 while working for the NAACP, Farmer organized Freedom Rides throughout southern states. The Freedom Rides were considered successful for exposing the violence Black people endured in segregation to the public through the media.

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This was one of the worst times for the civil rights movement as one of their biggest influencers was killed in Memphis, Tennessee trying to fight for them