Civil Rights Movement

By ebbinghouses

  • Jackie Robinson becomes the first black MLB player

    Border Year: This is a border year beause it is the first in my timeline. Also, Jackie Robinson is the first big leader/symbol of the Civil Rights movement. He showed strength by withstanding the hatefulness of not only the fans, but his teammates as well. Robinon showed that there can be minorities in the entertainment/sports industry.
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    People are starting to notice

    Only the starting of the movement is starting. The activists are becoming are being more open and more forward about trying to get equal rights.

  • Hector P. Garcia founds teh American GI Forum

    The government wouldn't include Latino veterans in organizations and denied them services by the vets administration. This would allow Latino vets to have the same opportunities and receive the same services that white veterans that fought for the US woudl get and protect them.

  • Truman Desegregates the Military

    Border Year: I chose this year because now, since the president is doing something about it, then it's the end of their fight starting to emerge. Now, it is the start of the younger people being involved (drafted military personnel at least 18). Truman made it so that now young and old, black and white can fight next to each other. Thi really pushed the movement forward, especially in government.
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    Young people are getting involved

    Students are now noticing and starting to get involved with the movement. A new generation of acceptance is born.

  • Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka

    Linda Brown, an African American who was told she couldn't go to a public school in Topeka because of her race, finally did get to go to public school. It also made ll of the public schools in the US desegregated allowing colored children to go to schol with whites.

  • Rosa Parks and Bus Boycott

  • Creation of Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

    Created by African American ministers and MLK Jr., the SCLC was an organization that wanted to stop segregation and encourage people, especially African Americans, to vote. This happened because there was segregation of blacks and whites and blacks wouldn't/ weren't able to vote, so they challenged and stood up for equality.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

    Eisenhower established this to allow Arcan Americans to vote and Senat Democratic leader Lyndon Johnson got the act to pass. It alo made Civil Rights Division in the Justice Department and let it have authority to ee court injunctions against anyone getting in the way of their right ot vote.

  • Creation of the Student Non-Violent Coordination Committee

    Border Year: This is the last of the young people, of the years I have put, who are really getting involved and protesting and making a statement. The next event I have involves women and their rights. This means tht there is a shift in era from super-advocate students to super-advocate females. Also, It's not just focusing on races anymore like the black/white/latino thing that has been going on, but gender, too.
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    Women are noticed

    Women are getting more recognition and are wanting to stand up for themselves more.

  • Betty Friedan: The Famous Mystique

    Betty Friedan intervewed some women that grrduted with her ad wrote a book talking abbut women and what they felt towards their social roles in Society. It allowed women's voices to be heard and they could complain and talk about how unhappy they were. It made women all over the nation feel encouraged enough to voice their opinions and, eventually, pushed a group of women to start the Natoinal Organization for Women (NOW).

  • MLK's "I Have a Dream" Speech

    During the March on Washington, MLK Jr. did a speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial. It talked about his views on the future and how he wanted to see segregation adn discrimination agaisnt someone solely on their race gone. It encouraged peple adn showed that the activists were not afraid and are willing to stand up.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Under LBJ, thi act made public segregation illegal. It gave the US attorney general more power to bring lawsuit to force schools to desgregate nd require private employees to end the discrimination at work.

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

  • Watts Riots

  • Cesar Chavez and Dolore Huerta create the United Farm Workers (UFW)

    Originally, Chave and Huerta had two sparate organiations that had the same motives and fought for the same ideas. They then merged them together to become the UFW and continued going on a ot gof strikes to get their union recognied, to increase wages, nd to get better benefits.

  • Miranda v. Arizona

    A man was put in front of a judge and was forced and interogated into admitting that he was wrong. This was not right because it violated the 5th Amendment, which says that you don't have to speak and that everything you say will be used agasint you (Miranda Rights). He didn't have to speak if he didn't want to, but the Arizona Supreme Court forced him to.

  • National Organization for Women (NOW) founded

    Women finally were fed up woth the societal roles put onto them and the that they don't have the same rights as men. They voiced their opinions and wanted women to havet he same opportunities as men. This was a big organization fro women and can now protest against the government.

  • MLK Assassinated

    Since MLK Jr was shot, the people are grieving and thinking about how the movment is going to continue. It does and other stuff gets pased. There are many other types of movements, though. People are starting to voice their opinions on other things, not just th race struggle.
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    Post Assassination

    These are all of the good things, not all related to rights of blacks, that happened after MLKJr was assassinated.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    Also known as the Fair Housing Act, it made discrimination based on race, color, religion, or national origin illegal when selling, financing, or renting a house to someone. It ended segregation and discrimination when someone wants to buy a house.

  • AIM (American indian Movement) founded

    A group of Native Americans who see the governmet's efforst as "too modest" sit/ occupy a closed federal prison on Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay because they wanted to form a group of Native Americans that, once the Indian Civil Rights Act was passed, used their civil rights to protest government.

  • Title IX is passed

  • Roe v. wade

    Border Year: I picked this as a border year because it was the last year. Also, it shows that people are going beyond the whole race issue. After/during this year, though, therre was a lot of controversy on abortion. Not a lot of people would even talk about it, nor did they know a lot about it.

  • Roe v. wade Cont.

    Mega Year: It showed that the government was open to different ideas and wanted women to have a choice if they weren't able to take care of their child. It became an unspoken rule to never talk about it. This controversial subject still affects today. Peopl don't like to talk about it, and if they do, then it becomes a big argument/debate. Since this decision, there has been quite a few abortion clinic bombings and protests. There are so many people who are for and against , still, too.