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Desegregation of the Military
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Brown v Board of Education
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Murder of Emmett Till
Emmitt Till was a 14-year old boy from Chicago who went to visit his uncle in Mississippi for the summer. He flirted with a white girl. Later that night, three whtie men came and took him from his house. He was found later in a river. The men were found not guility. The mother choose to have an open casket funeral to show the world what these men did to her little boy. It really woke the nation up. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
After Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to sit in the back of the bus, the black community stood behind her and refused to use city busses. Blacks were the majority of the customers for the busses. The boycott hurt the pockets of the city. SCLC was formed out of this event. It was a hug step toward desegregation. It showed mass support for the cause. It was an achievable goal. -
Malcolm X joins the Nation of Islam
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SCLC Formed
It was formed by MLK. The goal was to shift civil rights to South, the North had no idea what was going on. Their stratagy was to use nonviolance. They looked to Gandi for inspiration. They used boycotts, pamphlets, and marches. They looked to get the big reaction out of the whites. -
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Kennedy's Presidency
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The New Frontier
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Nashville Sit-Ins
Lunch counters refused to serve black customers, but the blacks could still buy their products in the store. They sat at the lunch cutners every day waiting to be served. They were trained in noviolance in order to resist fighting back in assults. The police came in and arrest the blacks and then a new group would sit down. This continued for weeks. SNCC was formed. -
SNCC Formed
The Student Nonvoilent Coordinating Committee broke away from SCLC. It was lead by Mooses and Anne Moody. The goals were to get yound people involved in the movement becuase it was their futre and to shift the focus from Church leadership. They were wiling to take more extreme measures because they did not have as much to lose. The group was interractial. -
Kennedy-Nixon Debate
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1960 Election
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Peace Corps Proposed
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Alliance for Progress Proposed
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Warren Court Rules on Rights of the Accused
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
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Freedom Rides
The freedom rides where buses traveling from Washington DC to New Orleans. It was caused by the South ignoring the Supreme Court decissions that ban segregation in interstate travel. As the riders approached the deep South, they were meet with firebombs, and assults. Bobby Kennedy threated Gov. Patterson to protect the riders or federal troops would be sent it. Federal troops did get sent in. When the riders reached Mississippi, they were nonvioletly arrested. -
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Berlin Crisis
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Albany Movement
This movement did not work. It tried to go after too much. They did not think the state would mess with the federal government. However, it did mobialize the entire black community. They learned they need to pinpoint their target, so they don't dilute their resources. -
The Other America Published
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John Glenn Orbits the Earth
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Baker v. Carr
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Engel v. Vitale
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24th Amendment Ratified
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Integration of Ole Miss
James Meredith was denied acceptace to the college because of his race. The court cause ruled he must be accepted. Gov. Barnett declared James can not attend and physically blocked the enterence. Federal troops were sent in. There were many violent riots. James graduates in Aug. 1963. The event forced JFK's hand. -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time
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Birmingham Confrontation
The event targeted segregation and hoped to get media attention. MLK started the demonstraton. He chooses to go to jail where he writes his famous letter. Students are involved and are shot with fire hoses and had dogs released on them. This gets the media attention and it forces JFK to come out publicly in their support. This leads to the Civil Rights bill. -
Equal Pay Act Passed
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March on Washington
This event showed Kennedy support for his Civil Rights Bill. Behind the scences, an SNCC member was going to critize Kennedy for not doing anything sooner. Older civil rights leaders talked him out of it claiming that it would no help anything. MLK makes his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. It is a national, peaceful march that extends beyond the black community. -
16th Street Church Bombing
This event is important event because the African Americas chose not to take revenge but to act in a positive manner. This was a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement becuase the focus shifted to voting rights. JFK was working on solidifing descrimination.This location was choose for the bombing because its is where the Birmingham confrontation begain. -
Kennedy Assassination
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Lyndon Johnson Sworn in
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Warren Commission Formed
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Malcolm X leaves the Nation of Islam
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Economic Opportunity Act Passed
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Great Society Proposed
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Freedom Summer
This was a time for the push of voting rights. It wanted to get rid of voting restrictions, such as tests, and to get blacks registered. Many northern college students came down to send there summer helping the movement. In the end, many blacks were registered and the Missisippi Freedom Democratic Party was established. The event gained national attention for the cause. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
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1964 Democratic National Convention
The new party, MFDP, want to represent the state of Mississippi. President Johnson cut of TV coverage of the testomy at the hearing. But the MFDP still got the public support. They were offered two at-large seats. They declined becuase that was not their goal. -
1964 Election
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Malcolm X Assassinated
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Selma March
This event targeted voting rights. The Gov. came out and stopped them. The police were whereing gas masks and were using physical force to push the black back. The outcome was that there were no more literacy test, blacks were able to register to vote at free will, and federal officals were present at the polls. The event solidified national support. It was the last major event in the civil rights movement because segregation and voting rights were now fixed by laws. -
Medicare and Medicaid Passed
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act applied a nationwide prohibition against the denial or abridgment of the right to vote on the literacy tests on a nationwide basis. Jurisdictions covered by these special provisions could not implement any change affecting voting.The Attorney General could request that federal observers monitor activities within the county's polling place. -
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Watts (Los Angeles) Riots
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Little Rock Crisis
The event targeted segregation. National Guard sent in by Gov. to stop 9 blacks students to enter Central High School. 8 of 9 try to go, but turned down. The 9th tries to enter by herself. Eisenhower tells Gov to protect the black children. Eisenhower has to send in army. The event forces Eisenhower to uphold the Supreme Court decissions. The blacks do go to schools and help to change the views of some of the white students towars blacks. -
Stokely Carmichael Coins the term "Black Power"
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Black Pathers Formed
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Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
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Bobby Kennedy Assassinated
