Civil Rights Timeline

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
01/15/1929	Dr. King is Born	Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, GA., he was the second of three children of the Rev. Michael (later Martin) and Alberta Williams King.
09/01/1954	Dr. King Becomes Pastor	In 1954, King accepted his first pastorate in the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Him and his wife, Coretta Scott King, who he had met and married while at Boston University.
12/01/1955	Rosa Parks Defies City Segregation	Often called "the mother of the civil rights movement," Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on Feb. 4, 1913, started the 381-day Montgomery bus boycott that led to a 1956 Supreme Court order outlawing discriminatory practices on Montgomery buses. In December 1955, returning home from her assistant tailor job in Montgomery, Parks refused a bus driver's order to surrender her seat to a white man. She was jailed and fined $14.
12/05/1955	Montgomery Bus Boycott	Although it was started by the arrest of Rosa Parks, the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-56 was actually a collective response to decades of intimidation, harassment and discrimination of Alabama's African American population.
12/21/1956	Bus Seregation Declared Illigal	The boycott succeeded in desegregating public facilities in the South and also in getting civil rights legislation from Congress.
09/24/1957	School Integration	In September 1957 the state received national attention when Governor Orval E. Faubus tried to prevent the integration of Little Rock Central High School. President Dwight D. Eisenhower quickly intervened by sending federal troops to Little Rock, several black students were enrolled at Central High School.
08/19/1958	Student Sit-Ins	Black students would go into a five or ten cent store or diner and sit there and drink coffee and would never be offered service. They would sit there even when they were refused service.
05/03/1961	"Freedom Riders"	The Congress of Racial Equality organizes the "Freedom Riders."
05/02/1963	Youth Marches	Youth Marches occur at City Hall.
08/28/1963	King's "I Have a Dream" Speech	King organized the massive march to Washington where, in his "I Have a Dream" speech, he pointed out the conscience of the nation before the judgment seat of morality.
07/02/1964	Civil Rights Act	Congress enacted new legislation in an attempt to overcome local and state obstruction to the exercise of citizenship rights by blacks.
12/10/1964	Nobel Peace Prize	Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the youngest man to ever recieve a nobel peace prize.
01/07/1966	"Open City"	King announces the "Open City" campaign to fight problems in the North.
06/06/1966	Meredith Shot	James Meredith is shot shortly after he begins a voting rights march.
03/02/1968	Separate and Unequal	A report is released that the Nation is divided into groups of Blacks and whites
04/04/1968	Dr. King is Assassinated	On Apr. 4, 1968, King was killed by an assassin's bullet. The violent death of this man of peace brought an immediate reaction of rioting in black ghettos around the country.
04/08/1968	City Hall March	Coretta King leads a march of 42,000 to city hall to mourn her husbands death.
04/09/1968	Dr. King is Buried	Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is buried at south View Cemetery. A crowd of 50,000 to 100,000 is present as they mourn the death of a towering symbol of moral and social progress for Black Americans.
Timespan Dates:	Timespan Title:	Timespan Description:
01/15/1929 to 04/09/1968	Civil Rights Movement