Timeline

By mizt3

  • Civil Rights bill

    Civil Rights bill passed

  • Arrested

    Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus

  • Boycott

    Montgomery bus boycott

  • Prevention

    Governor Farbus of Arkansas brings in National Guard to prevent black students from going into a white school.

  • Sit In

    Sit in at Woolworth's lunch counter

  • Burned!

    Freedom riders bus burned

  • Book

    The Other America written by Michael Harrington

  • Arrested

    Peaceful demonstrators ruthlessly attacked in Birmingham, Alabama- MLK arrested.

  • Letters

    MLK writes Letter from a Birmingham jail

  • March

    March on Washington

  • Speech

    "I have a dream" speech given by Martin Luther King

  • assasinated

    John F. Kennedy assasinated
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    Presidency

    Lyndon B. Johnson becomes President

  • 24th amendment

    24th amendment passed
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    Harlem Riot of 1964

    a racial confrontation between residents in several city boroughs and the New York City Police after an African American teenager had been shot dead by an off-duty police officer.

  • assassination

    Malcom X was shot and killed this day.
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    Watts Riots

    Watts riots occured and had lasted almost more then 5 days.

  • Voting rights act

    Voting rights act 1965

  • Assassination

    Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated this day.

  • Forced busing begins

    In the fall of 1974 is when they had started forced busing but only to a certain limit.

  • KING

    Rodney king was beaten by police which was a little spark starting the Los Angeles riots in 1992.
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    Los Angeles Civil Unrest

    Thousands of people in the Los Angeles area rioted over the six days following the verdict of rodney king.