Civil Rights Milestones — Legal and Legislative Timeline¶
Learning Objective¶
Students will recall (Bloom L1 — Remember) the sequence of major civil rights milestones and explain (Bloom L2 — Understand) how legal decisions and legislation built on each other.
- Bloom Level: Understand (L2)
- Bloom Verb: Recall, Explain
- Library: vis-timeline
Specification¶
The full specification below is extracted from Chapter 8: "Chapter 8: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights".
Type: timeline
**sim-id:** civil-rights-timeline<br/>
**Library:** vis-timeline<br/>
**Status:** Specified
**Learning objective:** Students will *recall* (Bloom L1 — Remember) the sequence of major civil rights milestones and *explain* (Bloom L2 — Understand) how legal decisions and legislation built on each other.
**Design:**
- Horizontal timeline from 1896 (*Plessy*) to 2024
- Items grouped in two parallel tracks: "Court Decisions" (top band) and "Legislation/Events" (bottom band)
- Each item is a clickable dot that opens an infobox: event name, date, key players, one-sentence significance, and connection to other timeline events ("this overturned..." or "this led to...")
- Color coding: Supreme Court cases (purple), legislation (green), protest events (orange), executive action (blue)
- A "Show AP Required Cases" filter highlights the cases in the College Board's AP curriculum
- Responsive: vertical on mobile
**Key items:**
Court decisions: *Plessy* (1896), *Brown* (1954), *Heart of Atlanta* (1964), *Loving v. Virginia* (1967), *Regents of UC v. Bakke* (1978), *Grutter v. Bollinger* (2003), *Shelby County v. Holder* (2013), *Obergefell v. Hodges* (2015), *Bostock v. Clayton County* (2020), *Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard* (2023)
Legislation: Civil Rights Act 1964, Voting Rights Act 1965, Fair Housing Act 1968, ADA 1990
Events: Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-56), Greensboro sit-ins (1960), March on Washington (1963), Selma marches (1965)