Black History Civil Rights Mov

Discover the inspiring history of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States with photos, timelines and videos.

To honor Martin Luther King, Jr, Rosa Parks and John Lewis, we present these history photos, videos and timeline on the 50th anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King Jr.

The brave history of the Civil Rights Movement will come to life with these history timelines from the lunch counter sit-ins and freedom rides to the brave marches.

Featuring videos of important in Civil Rights Movement history and historical photos and pictures, key events in the Civil Rights Movement are explained and relived.

Interactive timelines that you control on your phone or tablet with allow you to scroll through the centuries make it easy to explore this important American history.

Important people and events you will meet include:

1) Days of Slavery.

2) Reconstruction and Jim Crow Era.

3) Brown vs brown court decision to desegregate the schools

4) Emmett Till's murder

5) Martin Luther King Jr.

6) Montgomery Bus Boycott

7) Desegregating Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas

8) Lunch counter sit-ins

9) Voter registration drives

10) President Kennedy's and Civil Rights

11) Freedom Rides of 1961

12) Birmingham, Alabama Campaign

13) 1963 March on Washington

14) 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in which four girls were killed

15) Malcolm X joins the movement, 1964–1965

16) Nonviolence and Nonviolence Training of Civil Rights Movement activists

17) Integration of Mississippi and American universities

18) Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

19) Summer of 1964: Freedom Summer

20) Civil Rights Act of 1964

21) Selma Voting Rights Movement

22) Voting Rights Act of 1965

23) Black power (1966–1968)

24) Poor People's March 1968

25) Martin Luther King assassination

26) Civil Rights Act of 1968

27) Underground Railroad

28) Emancipation Proclamation

29) Juneteenth Independence Day and Freedom Day

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