Major Civil Rights Events
Students hear the civil rights movement as a list of names and dates. Seeing it plotted across the American South, from a courtroom in Topeka to a motel balcony in Memphis, changes how the fourteen years between 1954 and 1968 register.
This map from Kappa Map Group’s Classroom Series marks the turning points geographically, so a U.S. history teacher can trace cause and consequence on the wall instead of the whiteboard.
Events mapped include:
- The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling
- The first lunch counter sit-in, 1960
- The 1962 integration of the University of Mississippi
- The 1963 March on Washington and the “I Have a Dream” speech
- The 1968 murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Several racial murders from the period
It meets U.S. History curriculum requirements and works in public, private, parochial, and home school settings. This version ships as a spring roller with backboard, and Map Shop can combine multiple Classroom Series history maps on a single roller system.

