American civil rights movement

By StrangeBubbles
  • Period: to

    Civil rights

  • Discrimination in the armed forces is banned

  • President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964

  • The militant Black Panthers are founded

  • Supreme Court rules that prohibiting interracial marriage is unconstitutional

  • Martin Luther King is shot

  • Civil rights act 1968 prohibiting discrimination in sale

  • President Bush signs civil rights act of 1991

  • The ringleader of Mississippi civil rights murders convicted

  • Rosa Parks dies

    age 92

  • Coretta Scott King dies

    Stroke at age 78