civil rights movement

By flashyrj

  • protests against racial discrimination and segregation

    Sixty black pastors and civil rights leaders from several southern states including Martin Luther King, Jr. meet in Atlanta, Georgia to coordinate nonviolent protests against racial discrimination and segregation

  • Little Rock Nine

    Nine black students known as the Little Rock Nine are blocked from integrating into Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. President Dwight D. Eisenhower eventually sends federal troops to escort the students however they continue to be harassed.

  • Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957

    Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957 into law to help protect voter rights. The law allows federal prosecution of those who suppress another’s right to vote

  • John F Kennedy

    John F Kennedy became the 35th president in January 1965

  • Kennedy and civil rights

    Kennedy and civil rights
    In October , police in Atlanta, Georgia arrested civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr and 33 other African Americans for sitting at a segregated lunch table. JFK immediately talked to the wife of MLK and his brother got him out of jail on bail.

  • Racism at Alabama college

    Governor George C. Wallace stands in a doorway at the University of Alabama to block two black students from registering. The standoff continues until President John F. Kennedy sends the National Guard to the campus

  • March with MLK

    Approximately 250,000 people take part in The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Martin Luther King gives the closing address in front of the Lincoln Memorial and states, “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed.

  • Bombing at a black church

    A bomb at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama kills four young girls and injures several other people prior to Sunday services.

  • JFK assanation

    President John F Kennedy was shot and killed on November 22nd, 1963

  • Civil rights act signed of 1964

    President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, preventing employment discrimination due to race, color, sex, religion or national origin. Title VII of the Act establishes the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to help prevent workplace discrimination.

  • Assassination of the great Malcolm X

    Black religious leader Malcolm X is assassinated during a rally by members of the Nation of Islam.

  • March On Selma

    In the Selma to Montgomery March, around 600 civil rights marchers walk to Selma, Alabama to Montgomery the state’s capital in protest of black voter suppression. Local police block and brutally attack them. After successfully fighting in court for their right to march, Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders lead two more marches and finally reach Montgomery on March 25.

  • Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr

    Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated on the balcony of his hotel room in Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray is convicted of the murder in 1969.

  • President Johnson signs the Civil RIghts act of 1968

    Just a week after Mlk Jr death President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, also known as the Fair Housing Act, providing equal housing opportunity regardless of race, religion or national origin