Civil Rights

By Riskninja

  • Plessy v. Fergeson Begins

  • Period: to

    The Great Migration

    1916-1970 not exact

  • Black troops first serve in ww2

  • Period: to

    White Flight

    1950s-1960s

  • Schools desegragated

    Brown vs. Board of Education

  • Rosa Parks arrested

  • Period: to

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • SCLC founded

  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

  • Little Rock Nine Armed Troop Escort

  • Woolworth lunch counter sit-in

  • SNCC founded

    *April 1960, no exact date

  • Freedom Riders Attacked

  • ICC Bans Segregation

  • James Meredith applies to Ole Miss

  • MLK arrested in Birminghakm

  • Period: to

    Children's Crusade in Birmingham

  • Segregation Ends in Birmingham

  • Stand in the Schoolhouse Door

    Alabama Governor George Wallace attempts to block integration at the University of Alabama.

  • MLK's "I have a dream" speach

  • 16th St. Baptist Chuch Bombing

  • 24th Amendment Passes

    Link

  • Malcom X visits Mecca

  • Freedom Summer Begins

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

  • Malcom X Assassinated

  • Period: to

    Selma Campaign

  • Period: to

    Chicago Freedom Movement

    *mid-1965 to early 1967

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

  • Period: to

    Watts Riots

  • Black Panthers Formed

  • Stokely Carmichael calls for "black power"

  • MLK Assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

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