Timeline of the Movie "The Butler" & Civil Rights Movement

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Feb 12, 1909

Formed in 1909 advance justice for African Americans

UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT

Jul 15, 1914

Executive 8802

Jul 25, 1941

signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 25, 1941, to prohibit ethnic or racial discrimination

Executive 9981

Jun 26, 1946

President Harry S. Truman. It abolished discrimination "on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin

Emmett Tills death

Aug 28, 1955

was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman

LITTLE ROCK CENTRAL H.S. AR

Sep 3, 1957

. The school was the site of forced desegregation in 1957

BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN'S CRUSADE

May 2, 1963

non-violent approach to fighting racial segregation,

Congress of racial equality

Sep 22, 1963

African-American civil rights organization in the United States

assassination of jfk

Dec 22, 1963

John Fitzgerald Kenned 35th president of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963

Selma to Montgomery Marches

Mar 7, 1965

Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery

WATTS RIOTS

Aug 11, 1965

BLACK PANTHERS/HUEY NEWTON

Oct 19, 1966

assassination of mlk

Apr 4, 1968

assassination of rfk

Jun 6, 1968

SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER

Aug 17, 1971