1. A TIMELINE OF KEY EVENTS
CIVIL RIGHTS
A TIMELINE OF KEY EVENTS

2. Standard
USHC-8.1 Analyze the African American Civil Rights Movement.

3. Essential Question
What were the key events of the Civil Rights Movement?

4. What other efforts at Civil Rights?
13th: abolished slavery
14th: established citizenship
and due process
15th: universal male suffrage

5. Early Civil Rights Leaders
W.E.B. DuBois—pushed for immediate civil rights and equality. Leader of NAACP
Booker T. Washington
founder of Tuskegee Institute.

6. 1909 NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
est’d.

7. 1948 Pres. Truman integrates the military

8. 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
SC rules “separate, but equal” facilities are unconstitutional.
Reverses Plessy v Ferguson.

9. 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus. A boycott follows, leading to desegregation.

10. 1957 Central High School Little Rock, Arkansas “The Little Rock Nine”
Pres. Eisenhower sends federal troops to protect black students integrating local HS.

11. Sit-ins
Students in Greensboro, NC stage sit-ins at the Woolworth’s lunch counter
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, SNCC (snick) led by Stokely Carmichael

12. 1961 Freedom Rides
Volunteers take buses into the South to test new desegregation laws, often meeting with violence

13. Freedom rides

14. 1962 James Meredith
Pres. Kennedy sends 5000 troops to U. MS. for James Meredith, 1st African-American student, to attend.

15. 1963 Birmingham, AL
MLK and the SCLC (slick) Protest segregation. End in violence, riots, and arrests of adults and children…on TV.

16. Aug 1963 March on Washington
200,000 people hear Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington.

17. Stand in the Schoolhouse Door
Gov. George Wallace Refuses to desegregate Univ. of Alabama
Federal troops had to force him.

18. 1963 Bombing in Birmingham
4 young girls killed at 16th St. Baptist Church
KKK bomber is arrested and found guilty of…illegal possession of dynamite!

19. th Amendment
Outlawed poll tax. Black voter registration begins to increase.

20. 1964 Civil Rights Act
Outlaws discrimination based on race.

21. 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer
Civil rights activists attempt to register African-Americans to vote

22. 1965 Selma March
Demanding voting rights, 600 protesters plan to march to Montgomery.
6 blocks into march, they meet state troopers armed with nightsticks and tear gas.

23. SELMA, ALABAMA
1965

24. 1965 Voting Rights Act
In the aftermath of Selma, Pres. Johnson calls for passage of a voting rights bill.
Outlaws literacy tests, est’d fed. oversight

25. Protests—different views
KING: Non-violent, passive resistance
Influenced by Ghandi
Black Power: proactive, militant, focus on black pride and African heritage.

26. 1965 Malcolm X assassinated
Key member of the Nation of Islam
Wanted segregation from White society
Believed Blacks needed to focus on their AFRICAN heritage.
1964 Pilgrimage to Mecca softened his anti-white views.
Began cooperation with SCLC and SNCC

27. Malcolm X
In Feb. 1965, he was assassinated by 2 members of the Nation of Islam who felt he was a traitor.

28. 1965-67 Urban Race Riots – a call for economic rights
Watts (Los Angeles), Detroit, Newark

29. 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr assassinated
Memphis, TN, King is shot by James Earl Ray.

30. Vocabulary Thurgood Marshall Fannie Lou Hamer Black Panthers
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Affirmative Action