Time Line
1954.
Brown v. Board of education was passed.
1955
Arrest of Rosa Parks. Launching of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
1956
Desegregation of the Montgomery buses. Boycott successful.
1957
Little rock nine escorted to school by 1,000 paratroopers.
1960
Sit in protests become nationally popular.
1961
Freedom rides. When white and black people boarded buses, rode through the south, and took on segregation.
1962
Garfield High has a 51% black student body.
James Meredith was enrolled as the first black at the University of Mississippi. Riots resulted killing two, and injuring many.
1963
King arrested along with other ministers in Birmingham, Alabama. Then release Police dogs and turn Fire Hoses on crowds.
In Jackson, Mississippi, N.A.A.C.P. Leader, Medgar Evers is murdered, June 12, entering his house.
The March on Washington, and Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” Speech.
Seattle School District voluntarily Desegregates
1964
Open-housing ordinance shot down by voters in Seattle City.
In Mississippi, three Civil Rights workers are murdered.
President Johnson singed the Civil Rights act.
1965
Malcolm X murdered February 21.
The Voting act is passed granting clearance to all future voters.
Riots killed 34 in LA.
1967
Sam smith is the first black Councilman in Seattle.
1968
In Memphis, Tennessee, Martin Luther King was assassinated.
Seattle residents threw firebombs, broke windows, and hit people with rocks in response to M.L.K’s murder.
Rally at Garfield High disrupted by stones and firebombs.
1969
Respected African American leader, Edwin Pratt shot to death in his own home. The murder was never solved.
1977
Seattle school Board plans to eliminate segregation by fall 1979
1978
Seattle is the largest city to desegregate voluntarily
Us Supreme court outlaws racial quotas.
1989
The first African-American leader to become state governor was Douglas Wilder.
1992
Racial riots break out in LA after police officers were caught on tape beating a black man, Rodney King.
1954.
Brown v. Board of education was passed.
1955
Arrest of Rosa Parks. Launching of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
1956
Desegregation of the Montgomery buses. Boycott successful.
1957
Little rock nine escorted to school by 1,000 paratroopers.
1960
Sit in protests become nationally popular.
1961
Freedom rides. When white and black people boarded buses, rode through the south, and took on segregation.
1962
Garfield High has a 51% black student body.
James Meredith was enrolled as the first black at the University of Mississippi. Riots resulted killing two, and injuring many.
1963
King arrested along with other ministers in Birmingham, Alabama. Then release Police dogs and turn Fire Hoses on crowds.
In Jackson, Mississippi, N.A.A.C.P. Leader, Medgar Evers is murdered, June 12, entering his house.
The March on Washington, and Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” Speech.
Seattle School District voluntarily Desegregates
1964
Open-housing ordinance shot down by voters in Seattle City.
In Mississippi, three Civil Rights workers are murdered.
President Johnson singed the Civil Rights act.
1965
Malcolm X murdered February 21.
The Voting act is passed granting clearance to all future voters.
Riots killed 34 in LA.
1967
Sam smith is the first black Councilman in Seattle.
1968
In Memphis, Tennessee, Martin Luther King was assassinated.
Seattle residents threw firebombs, broke windows, and hit people with rocks in response to M.L.K’s murder.
Rally at Garfield High disrupted by stones and firebombs.
1969
Respected African American leader, Edwin Pratt shot to death in his own home. The murder was never solved.
1977
Seattle school Board plans to eliminate segregation by fall 1979
1978
Seattle is the largest city to desegregate voluntarily
Us Supreme court outlaws racial quotas.
1989
The first African-American leader to become state governor was Douglas Wilder.
1992
Racial riots break out in LA after police officers were caught on tape beating a black man, Rodney King.