Civil Rights Movement

  • Brown V Board of Education Starts

  • Period: to

    NAACP Builds The Case agains the Board of Education

  • Period: to

    Brown V Board of Education

  • We Charge Genocide

  • Baton Rouge, LA Bus Boycott

  • Baton Rouge, LA Bus Boycott

  • Brown V Board of Education Ends

  • White Citizens Council Formed

  • John Earl Reese Murdered

  • Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus boycotts

  • Mississippi Sovereignty Commission

  • Period: to

    Southern States Try to Destroy NAACP

  • Period: to

    Robert Williams & Armed Self-Defense in Monroe NC

  • Little Rock Nine

  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

  • Youth March for Integrated Schools (OCT)

  • Clyde Kennard Framed and Jailed in MS

  • Period: to

    Fayette County TN Tent City for Evicted Voters

  • Period: to

    JFK, King, and the 1960 Election (Oct-Nov)

  • Woolworth’s Lunch Counter

  • Tougaloo Nine and Jackson State Protest

  • Freedom Riders

  • Cambridge MD

  • Period: to

    Freedom Highways in the Tarheel State

  • Mass Action in Durham

  • March on Washington

  • St. Augustine FL Movement

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

  • Bloody Sunday

  • Murder of Jonathan Daniels

  • State Poll Taxes Ruled Unconstitutional

  • 1966 Alabama Elections

  • Cambridge MD — Black Power Speech

  • Miscegenation Laws Ruled Unconstitutional (June)

  • MLK Assasinated

  • Fair Housing Act of 1968