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Congress of Racial Equality is founded
This was made to help prevrnt racism and discrimination. -
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Civil Rights Movement
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Rosa Parks Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the color section for a white man. -
Greensboro sit-in
“On February 1, 1960, four African American college students ordered doughnuts and coffee at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. As they expected, the white waitress refused to serve them. In the South, nearly all restaurants that served whites refused to serve blacks. To protest this discrimination, the four students sat down on the stools at the lunch counter, where they stayed until closing time.” This began to spread and popularized the idea of sit-ins. -
John F. Kennedy wins the election of 1960
People thought his style and youth could bring change to America. -
CORE staged a freedom ride through the Deep South.
Riders set off in two separate buses from Washington, D.C., bound for New Orleans. En route, they defied segregationist codes. African Americans sat in the front of the bus and used “white” restrooms in bus stations. In Alabama, segregationists firebombed one of the buses. When the second bus arrived in Birmingham, a white mob attacked the riders. -
James Meredith challenged the University if Mississippi because it was segregated.
He wanted to attend but they were segregated. He was aided by the NAACP, a political organization that had been using litigation to challenge the legality of segregation in the courts. In September 1962, with the support of the NAACP, Meredith won a federal court case that ordered the university to desegregate. Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was instrumental in this effort. -
Lyndon B Johnson becomes president
Following Kennedy’s assasination. -
The March on Washington
People marched on Washington for civil rights. -
Martin Luther King jr. is arrested.
The campaign began nonviolently at first with protest marches and sit-ins. City officials got a court order prohibiting the demonstrations. On Good Friday, April 12, 1963, King decided to violate the order and join the demonstration personally, even though he knew it would lead to his arrest. From his jail cell, King wrote a letter explaining why he and other civil rights activists were tired of waiting for reform. -
Kennedy tries to help and speed up desegregation and civil rights
In early 1963, Kennedy introduced a civil rights bill that demanded prosecution for voting-rights violations and federal money to aid school desegregation. Further violence in the South prompted Kennedy to introduce stronger civil rights legislation. -
Kennedy is assasinated
While in office, Kennedy suggested many things to help the civil rights movement but many were nit passed. -
Twenty-fourth A,endment ratified
It banned the poll tax. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Was passed through the House of Representatives but delayed in Senate. -
Movement called Freedom Summer was started to register African Americans to vote.
About 1,000 volunteers, mostly black and white students, were to flood Mississippi to register African Americans to vote. They also formed the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), an alternative to Mississippi's all-white regular Democratic Party, to give African Americans a voice in state politics. -
Congress passed the voting act of 1965
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March on Selma is lead by King
Early in 1965, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the SCLC organized a major campaign in Selma, Alabama, to pressure the federal government to enact voting rights legislation. -
The Kerner commission investigated.
Wanted to know the reason for riots, -
The Black Panthers and Malcom X gain popularity
Many young African Americans saw themselves as heirs of the radical Malcolm X. They began to move away from the principle of nonviolence. They also began to question the goal of integration. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assasinated
While King was in Tennessee he was assasinated. His peaceful means of protesting continued to be popular and helped progress the civil rights movement. -
Fair housing Act passed
