civil rights movement timeline project

By laceydoolan
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    "Bull" connor and birmingham, alabama protests

  • malcolm little arrested and prison time

  • nation of islam is founded

  • Jackie Robinson integrates major league baseball

  • Executive order 9981

  • greensboro Sit-ins

  • little rock nine

  • murder of emmitt till

  • montgomery bus boycott

  • Southern manifesto

  • brown vs. board of education

  • civil rights act of 1957

  • SCLC is founded

  • ruby bridges

  • freedom rides

  • james meredith and integration of ole miss

  • letter from birmingham jail

  • Civil rights act of 1964

  • murder of medgar evers

  • bombing of 16th street baptist church

  • core is founded

  • Murder of james chaney, andrew goodman, and michael schwerner

  • 24th amendment

  • Freedom Summer

  • malcolm X Assassinated

  • voting rights act of 1965

  • executive order 11246

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    loving v. virginia

  • newark and detroit race riots

  • black panthers are founded

  • kerner commission