1. Civil Rights Movement 1954 - 1968 The following photos will serve as a visual timeline of people and events that helped shape the history of the American society. The quest for social equality and justice was led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in a non- violent revolution. The Supreme Court’s decision to integrate public schools, Emmett Till’s murder, the arrest of Rosa Parks, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott led by Dr. King kicked off a chain of events that would change our society for the better. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 would eliminate legal segregation and discrimination in our nation. All of America’s people can now have equal opportunities to live in a society that will truly protect their civil rights.

2. Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas 1954

3. Open-Casket Photo of Emmett Till 1955

4. Rosa Parks 1914 - 2005

5. Ruby Bridges 1960 First Black child to enter an all-white elementary school in the South

6. Little Rock Nine September 4, 1957

7. First Lunch Counter Sit-In 1960 Woolworth’s – Greensboro, North Carolina

8. Freedom Riders Attacked by KKK in Alabama 1961

9. Freedom Rides 1961

10. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

11. Children’s March Birmingham, Alabama 1963

12. Children’s March 1963

13. 16 th Street Baptist Church

14. Victims of the KKK Sept. 1963

15. August 28, 1963

16. President John F. Kennedy 1917 - 1963

17. Andrew Goodman – James Cheyney – Michael Schwerner Civil Rights Workers murdered by KKK Mississippi - 1964

18. Bloody Sunday Selma to Montgomery March 1964

19. King’s Assassination Memphis, Tennessee April 4, 1968

20. President Barack Obama