Civil Rights Movement
DESCRIPTION
Timeline of 16 landmark Civil Rights Movement events (1954–1968). Color-coded by type: protest (green), legal (blue), legislation (gold star), violence (red), speech (purple). Filter by category. Key figures section with detailed profiles of MLK Jr., Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, and Thurgood Marshall. Covers Brown v. Board through MLK assassination, including legislation analysis of Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act.
- Civil Rights
- MLK
- segregation
- Brown v Board
- Voting Rights Act
- nonviolent
- freedom rides
- AP US History
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