Post WW2 Civil Rights Movement

By mbeavershhs

  • Committee of Civil Rights - 1946

    -Presidents committee (PCCR) established by Executive Order 9808, which Harry Truman, who was then President of the United States, issued on December 5, 1946.

  • Truman - 1947

    -33rd President of United States
    -Dropped atomic bomb on Japan, ending World War II

  • Baseball - 1947

    -Major League Baseball (MLB) allowed A.A.s to play professionally

  • Brown v. Board of Edu. of Topeka - 1954

    -Violated protection of laws
    -Desegregated schools

  • Montgomery, AL - 1955

    -Montgomery Bus Boycott against racial segregation
    -Rosa Parks sat in white man's seat & refused to get up

  • Greensboro, NC - 1957

    -Series of protests led to Woolworth department store chain ending racial segregation

  • Eisenhower - 1957

    -34th president (1953-1961)
    -5 Star General in WW2 & served as Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe;

  • Beatniks - 1950s

    -Media stereotype
    -Beat Generation Literary Movement
    -Beat as beaten down

  • Eisenhower - 1960

    -Cold War 1
    -Requested to fly airplanes over Soviet Union

  • SNCC - 1960s

    -Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee
    -1 of most important organizations in Civil Rights Movement
    -Black power & Protested against Vietnam War

  • Mapp v. Ohio - 1961

    -Supreme Court declared violation 4th Amendment, which protects against "unreasonable searches and seizures" in state courts
    -6-3 favored Mapp

  • Mississippi - 1962

    -Old Miss Riot
    -Southerner segregationists vs. federal/state forces
    -Black freedom

  • March on Washington - 1963

    -Martin Luther King jr. "I Have A Dream" speech
    -For jobs & freedom
    -Led to Civil/Voting Rights Acts

  • Gideon v. Wainwright - 1963

    -Supreme Court ruled states required under 14th Amendment to U.S. Constitution to provide counsel in criminal cases to represent defendants who are unable to afford to pay their own attorneys

  • Alabama - 1963

    -Birmingham Campaign by Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to bring attention to integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama. Between young black students & white civic authorities, led municipal government to change city's discrimination laws.

  • Feminine Mystique - 1963

    -Book by Betty Friedan began of second-wave feminism in the United States

  • Escobedo v. Illinois - 1964

    -United States Supreme Court case holding that criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations under the Sixth Amendment

  • 24th Amendment - 1964

    -Prevented African Americans from voting; made the poll tax unconstitutional in regard to federal elections

  • Civil Rights Acts - 1965

    -Voting Rights Act
    -Prohibited racial discrimination

  • Assasinations - 1965

    -Malcolm X (/ˈmælkəm ˈɛks/; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965), born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz[A] (Arabic: الحاجّ مالك الشباز‎), was an African-American Muslim minister and a human rights activist.

  • Riots - 1965-1968

    -The Watts riots = race riot that took place in Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles from August 11 to 17, 1965. The six days of racially fueled violence and unrest resulted in 34 deaths, 1,032 injuries, 3,438 arrests, and over $40 million in property damage. It was the most severe riot in the city's history until the Los Angeles riots of 1992, and is considered by many to be a key turning point in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.

  • NOW - 1966

    • National Organization for Women (NOW) is an American feminist organization

  • Miranda v. Arizona - 1966

    -Interrogation by defendant in police custody will be admissible at trial only if the prosecution can show that the defendant was informed of the right to consult with an attorney before and during questioning and of the right against self-incrimination
    -Miranda rights = police procedure

  • Thurgood Marshall - 1967

    -Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice

  • Assassinations - 1968

    -Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian/Jordanian immigrant, was convicted of Kennedy's murder and is serving a life sentence for the crime
    -Senator

  • Woodstock - 1969

    -Music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music". Held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm New York. Bethel, in Sullivan County,
    - Rolling Stone listed it as one of the 50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock and Roll.

  • Earl Warren Court - 1953-1969

    -American jurist and politician, who served as the 30th Governor of California (1943–1953) and later the 14th Chief Justice of the United States (1953–1969). He is best known for the decisions of the Warren Court, which ended school segregation

  • ERA - 1972

    -Equal Rights Amendment
    -Guaranteed equal rights for women.

  • Civil Rights Act - 1964

    -Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public known as public accommodations