Events For the Civil Rights Movement

By AbigailRegan
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    Events of the Civil Rights Movement - 19th and 20th Centuries

  • American Civil War

  • Emancipation Proclamtion

  • Fifteenth Amendment

  • Civil Rights Act of 1875 signed

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

  • The Talented Tenth and The Souls of Black Folk is published

    Written by W.E.B. Du Bois

  • Great Migration starts, lasts until 1940

  • East St. Louis riot and Houston riot

  • American Negro Labor Congress is formed

  • Hocutt v. Wilson trial

    Unsuccessful

  • Detroit race riot in Michigan

  • United Negro College Fund is incorprated

  • Miami hires its first black police officers

  • American Crusade against lynching

  • Desegrigation of the Army

  • Denial of the Supreme Court

    Black children are denied from a white school, against Supreme Court ruling.

  • Black History Month

    Black History Month is founded

  • Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1988