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The movement starts
(http://crdl.usg.edu/events/?Welcome)Brown versus Board of Education
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Things happen in the south trying to get the blacks to stop
Emmett Till murder
On August 28, 1955, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped and murdered in Money, Mississippi, galvanizing support for racial reform in the south -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. Her defiant stance prompts a year-long Montgomery bus boycott. (http://crdl.usg.edu/events/?Welcome) -
Pilgrimage for freedom
Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, Washington, D.C.
The Prayer Pilgrimage to Washington for Freedom took place on May 17, 1957, when a crowd of over thirty thousand nonviolent demonstrators, from more than thirty states, gathered at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. to commemorate the third anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling.(http://crdl.usg.edu/events/?Welcome) -
The little rock school integration
Little Rock Central High School Integration
The desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, gained national attention on September 3, 1957, when Governor Orval Faubus mobilized the Arkansas National Guard in an effort to prevent nine African American students from integrating the high school.(http://crdl.usg.edu/events/?Welcome) -
Civil rights act
Civil Rights Act of 1957
On September 9, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1957.(https://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement-timeline) -
"Temple" bombing
Temple Bombing (Atlanta, Ga.)
In the early hours of October 12, 1958, fifty sticks of dynamite exploded in a recessed entranceway at the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation, Atlanta's oldest and most prominent synagogue, more commonly known as "the Temple."(http://crdl.usg.edu/events/?Welcome) -
New Orleans integration
New Orleans school integration
Two years following the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, Federal District Court Judge, J. Skelly Wright, ordered the Orleans Parish School Board to design an effective plan for the desegregation of New Orleans' public schools.(http://crdl.usg.edu/events/?Welcome) -
Black Collage Students in North Carolina
February 1, 1960: Four college students in Greensboro, North Carolina refuse to leave a Woolworth’s “whites only” lunch counter without being served. Their nonviolent demonstration sparks similar “sit-ins” throughout the city and in other states.(http://crdl.usg.edu/events/?Welcome) -
Albany Movement
Albany Movement
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Freedom rides
Freedom Rides
On May 4, 1961, an interracial group of student activists under the auspices of the Congress of Racial Equality departed Washington D.C. by bus to test local compliance throughout the Deep South with two Supreme Court rulings banning segregated accommodations on interstate buses and in bus terminals that served interstate routes.(http://crdl.usg.edu/events/?Welcome) -
NAACP convention in Atlanta
NAACP convention in Atlanta
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Birmingham bombing
Birmingham Bombing (Sixteenth Street Baptist Church)
The bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, was one of the deadliest acts of violence to take place during the Civil Rights movement and evoked criticism and outrage from around the world.(http://crdl.usg.edu/events/?Welcome) -
Birmingham demenstrations
Birmingham Demonstrations
Despite energetic organization on the local level, Birmingham, Alabama remained a largely segregated city in the spring of 1963 when Martin Luther King Jr. and his colleagues at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) launched Project C (for confrontation), an ambitious program that wedded economic pressure and large scale direct action protest to undermine the city's rigid system of segregation. -
March on Washington
March on Washington
On August 28, 1963, a quarter of a million Americans from across the United States converged on the nation's capitol in what was to become a defining moment in the Civil Rights movement.(http://crdl.usg.edu/events/?Welcome) -
JFK assasination
John F. Kennedy's assassination
On November 22, 1963 President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in a presidential motorcade.
