Civil Rights Movement

By lil_tyke

  • NAACP

    Founded by a group of multi-racial activists

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Segregation in schools declared unconstitutional

  • Emmett Till

    14-year-old Chicagoan kidnapped and brutally killed

  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger

  • SCLC

    Martin Luther King Jr. established the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

  • Robert F. Williams

    He successfully led an armed self-defense of the home of V.P. of NAACP

  • Little Rock

    Nine black students were admitted to Central High School

  • Sit-ins

    Non-violent demonstrations trigger other non-violent acts

  • Executive Order 10925

    Prohibiting the discrimination in the federal government

  • SNCC

    Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee founded at Shaw University

  • James Meredith

    First black student admitted to University of Mississippi; caused President Kennedy to send 5,000 federal troops in

  • Medgar Evers

    Killed by Byron De La Beckwith, convicted 30 years later

  • March on Washington

    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech

  • Church Bombing

    Four girls attending Sunday School killed by bomb

  • Poll Tax

    24th amendment abolished poll tax

  • Freedom Summer

    Voter Registration Program

  • COFO - Freedom Summer

    Freedom Rides, 1,000 volunteers black and white participate

  • Civil Rights Act

    President Johnson signed Civil Rights Act of 1964

  • More Death

    Bodies of three civil rights workers (two white, one black) found

  • Assassination

    Malcolm X assassinated at Audubon Ballroom

  • Selma to Montgomery Marches

    Political and emotional peak of Civil Rights Movement

  • Bloody Sunday

    State Troopers and Dallas County Sheriff's Department attacked peaceful marchers with billy clubs, tear gas, and bull whips driving them back to Selma

  • Ceremonial Action

    Dr. Martin flew to Selma

  • Act of 1965

    Voting Rights of 1965 passed by Congress

  • Voting Requirements

    Requirements restraining black voting made illegal

  • Executive Order 11246

    Equality of employment

  • Loving v. Virgina

    Prohibiting interracial marriage declared unconstitutional

  • Thurgood Marshall

    First African American Supreme Court Justice

  • Crippling Assassination

    Dr. King assassinated by James Earl Ray

  • Act of 1968

    President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968