Trey's Civil Rights Time Line

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Founded

Jan 1, 1942

civil rights the equal rights for everyone no matter race or religion
Founded by a group of students
Was a nonviolent protest group

Dodger's Hire Jackie Robison

Apr 14, 1945

Color line- is a barrier that separates whites and non whites
Jackie Robison and the Dodgers- break the color line
He took the field in 1947

Executive order 9981

Jul 26, 1948

segregation- grouping by race
President truman signs this executive order

Executive Order 9981- ends the armed forces segregation

Brown v. Board of education ruling

May 17, 1954

Thurgood Marshall He was the head NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
Made to beat segregation

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Dec 5, 1955

Boycott and rosa parks Boycott is not buying or using a service and rosa parks did not want to give up her seat
Blacks did not ride the bus until they changes the laws to were they did not have to give up there seat

Integration of Central High school

Sep 4, 1957

Little Rock nine - Was a group of students that made nonviolent actions
Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort the “Little Rock Nine” into the school

Freedom Rides

Feb 1, 1960

Civil Disobedience & SNCC Refusing to obey an unjust law & Student Nonviolent Coordinating Comity
They wanted to be fair along with everyone else
they broke the laws so they could prove a point

First Lunch Counter Sit-in

Jul 25, 1960

Jim Crow Laws & Sit-In they were the laws that made the black be below whites
It was a nonviolent act for equal rights
The students wanted to be equal

Birmingham Campaign Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Apr 16, 1963

SCLC It is an african american civil rights group
they were having a lot of sit ins at the lunch counter and they were getting arrested for it
It was written by king when he was in jail

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Jul 2, 1964

Plessy v Ferguson a constitutional court case for equal rights
US band discrimination on race and all other aspects
was a large impact for everyone fighting for there rights

March on Washington

Jul 2, 1964

NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Civil rights leaders to protest racial discrimination and to show support for major civil rights legislation that was pending in Congress.

Watts Riot

Aug 11, 1965

Kerner Commission & ghettos a part of a city, especially a slum area, occupied by a minority group or groups
In the predominantly black Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles

Black Panther Party Founded

Oct 15, 1966

Black power is a political slogan and a name for various associated ideologies aimed at achieving self-determination for people of African descent

Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenberg Board of Education

Apr 20, 1971

desegregation the ending of a policy of racial segregation.
Court held that busing was an appropriate remedy for the problem of racial imbalance in schools

Advocates for Black Nationalism

Jun 20, 1971

Nation of Islam, Malcom X Black people of islamic decent
ideologies are unity and self-determination—that is, separation, or independence, from European society.

Regents of the Univeristy of California v. Bakker

Jun 26, 1978

Affirmative action an action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education; positive discrimination. use of racial "quotas" in its admissions process

Civil Rights Act of 1968

Apr 3, 2017

discrimination the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex
defines housing discrimination as the “refusal to sell or rent a dwelling to any person because of his race, color, religion, or national origin