civil right movement

By jaydyn
  • NO

    NO

    1946 - Segregation on buses that crossed state borders was declared illegal
  • NO

    NO

    1948 - Discrimination in the armed forces became illegal
  • NO

    NO

    1952 - First year since 1881 without a lynching
  • NO

    NO

    1954 - The supreme court declared segregation in schools to be unconstitutional
    December 1st 1955 - Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white person.
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    NO

    1955 - Montgomery Bus Boycott began
  • NO

    NO

    1957 - Dr. Martin Luther King began president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
  • NO

    NO

    1957 - Civil Rights Act passed
  • NO

    NO

    1960 - Elijah Muhammad called for the creation of a seperate state for blacks
  • high

    high

    1962 - The arrest of the Freedom Riders in the South
  • high

    high

    1963 - The Leader of the NAACP was assassinated
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    NO

    1964 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the nobel peace prize.
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    NO

    1965 - Watts Riot which lasted 6 days
  • NO

    NO

    1968 - Dr. King's assassination
  • NO

    NO

    1968 - Memphis sanitation workers went on strike