Civil Rights Movement By TheLoser101 1951 Brown V Board of Education Starts Period: 1951 to 1952 NAACP Builds The Case agains the Board of Education Period: 1951 to May 17, 1954 Brown V Board of Education Dec 17, 1951 We Charge Genocide 1953 Baton Rouge, LA Bus Boycott Jun 18, 1953 Baton Rouge, LA Bus Boycott May 17, 1954 Brown V Board of Education Ends Jul 11, 1954 White Citizens Council Formed Oct 23, 1955 John Earl Reese Murdered Dec 1, 1955 Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus boycotts 1956 Mississippi Sovereignty Commission Period: 1956 to 1964 Southern States Try to Destroy NAACP Period: 1957 to 1961 Robert Williams & Armed Self-Defense in Monroe NC Sep 3, 1957 Little Rock Nine Sep 9, 1957 Civil Rights Act of 1957 1958 Youth March for Integrated Schools (OCT) 1959 Clyde Kennard Framed and Jailed in MS Period: 1959 to 1965 Fayette County TN Tent City for Evicted Voters Period: 1960 to Nov 8, 1960 JFK, King, and the 1960 Election (Oct-Nov) Feb 1, 1960 Woolworth’s Lunch Counter Mar 27, 1961 Tougaloo Nine and Jackson State Protest May 4, 1961 Freedom Riders 1962 Cambridge MD Period: 1962 to 1963 Freedom Highways in the Tarheel State May 21, 1963 Mass Action in Durham Aug 28, 1963 March on Washington 1964 St. Augustine FL Movement Jul 2, 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 Mar 7, 1965 Bloody Sunday Aug 14, 1965 Murder of Jonathan Daniels 1966 State Poll Taxes Ruled Unconstitutional 1966 1966 Alabama Elections 1967 Cambridge MD — Black Power Speech 1967 Miscegenation Laws Ruled Unconstitutional (June) Apr 4, 1968 MLK Assasinated Apr 11, 1968 Fair Housing Act of 1968