Civil Rights Movement America (1944 to 1965)

By tmarx28

  • National Congress of Native Americans

    Founded, allowed tribes forced into the United States government to have their own rule.

  • Truman Committee on Civil Rights

    Established to investigate civil rights in states and find ways to strengthen and protect them.

  • Jackie Robinson

    Becomes the first black major league baseball player for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

  • Bracero Program

    The original end of the Bracero Program entitling a five year period mexican workers could work and live in the U.S initially ends, causing racial tensions towards those who remained, even after extension of the program.

  • Mixed Army

    President Truman sends out an executive order that armed forces were legally supposed to be mixed of race.

  • Arkansas

    Arkansas becomes the first state to allow mixed races at high schools and universities.

  • Little Richard

    Little Richard begins the formation of the music genre rock n' roll.

  • Black radio

    The number of radio stations directed at African American listeners peaks to 250.

  • Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka.

    A debate over children having to walk to black schools when white ones were closer because of segregation that began in 1951 is decided in favor of the thirteen parents backing Mr. Brown.

  • Bus Boycotts

    The Montgomery Bus Boycotts officially begin after years of tension with the arrest of Rosa Parks.

  • Unsegregated Transport

    The United States Congress outlaws bus segregation.

  • Little Rock Nine

    The group nicknamed the Little Rock Nine integrate into Little Rock Central High School.

  • MLK Sit-in Arrest

    Martin Luther King Jr. and thirty-three other non-violent protestors are arested in Atlanta, GA for a sit-in at a restrurant.

  • Freedom Riders Bombing

    A Freedom Riders bus is firebombed by Klu Klux Klansmen, and are mercilessly beaten after the Klan failed to hold the doors shut to burn them to death.

  • Termination Policy

    A policy put into affect against aiding Native American reserves is abandoned.

  • I Have A Dream

    Martin Luther King makes his legendary speech in Washington D.C.

  • Civil Rights Act

    Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaws major forms of discrimination against race, religion and gender.

  • Malcolm X

    Multi-civil rights activist Malcolm X is shot and killed by three members of the Nation of Islam.

  • Voting Rights Act

    The Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlaws unfair voting practices such as literary tests against black voters.