Timeline by McReynolds, Kaylie S

1956

ksmcreynolds — 2024-05-15 14:32:02 UTC

Anthony Ray Hinton was born

1986

ksmcreynolds — 2024-05-15 14:36:42 UTC

Anthony Ray Hinton was sentenced to Death Row

1955

ksmcreynolds — 2024-05-15 14:41:57 UTC

Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat as an activist of the Civil Rights Movement, and she was arrested

1961

ksmcreynolds — 2024-05-15 14:47:24 UTC

“Freedom Riders” were a group of activists that were testing the 1960 decision by the Supreme Court that declared the segregation of interstate transportation facilities unconstitutional.

2015

ksmcreynolds — 2024-05-16 20:21:25 UTC

Anthony Ray Hinton was released from Death Row.

2002

ksmcreynolds — 2024-05-16 20:25:54 UTC

Anthony Ray Hilton’s mother, Buhlar Hinton, died from cancer.

1964

ksmcreynolds — 2024-05-16 20:29:47 UTC

The Civil Rights Act occurred which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

1967

ksmcreynolds — 2024-05-17 13:24:13 UTC

The Detroit Riot, which was a of violent confrontations between residents of predominantly Black neighborhoods and city police in Detroit.

1985

ksmcreynolds — 2024-05-17 13:28:24 UTC

Anthony Ray Hinton was wrongly convicted for a crime he did not commit and was taken from his home

1968

ksmcreynolds — 2024-05-17 13:31:40 UTC

This is when President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which was known as the fair housing act, providing equal housing opportunity regardless of race, religion or national origin

2008

ksmcreynolds — 2024-05-17 13:34:12 UTC

I was born

2023

ksmcreynolds — 2024-05-17 13:36:33 UTC

when me and my dad got piercings together

2017

ksmcreynolds — 2024-05-17 13:40:52 UTC

me and my cousins went to the movies for one of the first times together

2018

ksmcreynolds — 2024-05-17 13:41:40 UTC

One of our first Fourth of July’s we spent together as my cousins family and mine

2023-2024

ksmcreynolds — 2024-05-17 13:44:00 UTC

Had a big change in my life that has improved my life greatly and created a new, happier era to go into 2024 with

1997

ksmcreynolds — 2024-05-17 13:46:27 UTC

Henry, the close friend that Anthony Ray Hinton made and changed along the way, was executed

1999

ksmcreynolds — 2024-05-17 13:58:36 UTC

Bryan Stevenson met Anthony Ray Hinton around this time and later started representing Anthony Ray Hinton after many failed attempts of people representing him before

2024

ksmcreynolds — 2024-05-17 14:08:13 UTC

I went up to Tennessee to spend my birthday party time there with my friends that I haven’t seen since I moved to Alabama