Civil Rights Movement

By jersas

  • Plessy v. Fergusen

    landmark constitutional law case of the US Supreme Court. It upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal"

  • Formation of NAACP

    The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans

  • Malcolm X Leads nation of Islam

    Nation of Islam was mixed with religious points of Islam, including black prints and nationalism

  • Brown v. BOE of Topeka

    landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    protest against policy of racial segregation on Montgomery transit system

  • Formation of SCLC

    SOuthern Christian LEadership Cnference organized civil rights movement and its principles

  • Integration of Central High School in Little Rock

    Nine black students enrolled in Little Rock school

  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

    First federal civil rights legislation signed by Eisenhower

  • Formation of SNCC

    Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee most significant organization of Civil Rights Movement

  • Greensboro Sit In

    Series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro North Carolina

  • Boynton v Virginia

    overturned judgement convicting African AMerican law student for trespassing by being in a restaurant

  • First Freedom Ride

    7 blacks and 6 whites left DC goal was to test Boynton v Virginia

  • James Meredith enrolls in Ole Miss

    Chaos broke out at the school when he tried to enroll

  • Birmingham protests

    Movement organizd in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

  • march on Washington

    200,000 Americans gathered for political rally for jobs and freedom

  • 24th Amendment passed

    there was a prohibition on any poll tax in elections for federal officials

  • Freedom Summer

    volunteer campaign in US to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil rights and US labor law that outlawed discriination based on race, color, religion, sex, etc

  • Malcolm X assassinated

    Shot before he delivered a speech in New York on his new organization of African American unity

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting

  • Selma march

    The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery.

  • Black Panther Party

    revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982, with international chapters operating in the United States

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    a landmark part of legislation in the United States that provided for equal housing opportunities regardless of race, religion,

  • MLK Jr. assassinated

    Martin Luther King Jr. was an American clergyman and civil rights leader who was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968

  • Robert F Kennedy assassination

    On June 5, 1968, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was fatally shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, shortly after winning the California presidential primaries in the 1968 election, and died the next day while hospitalized