Civil Rights and Anti-Apartheid

By savannamckellar

  • Jan van Riebeeck brings 90 men with him at the Cape of Good Hope

  • The first slaves are imported

  • The British took the Cape of Good Hope over from the Dutch

  • The beginning of the emancipation of slaves

    The beginning of the emancipation of slaves

  • Zulus defeat the British Army

  • The Indian community is expelled form the Ornage Free State

  • Anglo-Boer/South African War begins

  • Anglo-Boer/South African War ends

  • Delegation appointed by the South African Native Convention

    went to London to plead the case of the country's black population

  • 1913 Land Act

    Reserves 90% of the ountry for white ownership

  • Cry, The Beloved Country is published

  • Truman signs Executive Order 9981

    it states 'It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and oppurtunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or natural origin."

  • The Supreme Court rules on the landmark case Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

    It was unanimously agreeing that segregation in public school is unconstitutional.

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the bus

    NAACP member rufuses to give up her seat at the front of th e"colored section" of a bus, defying a southern custom.

  • Buses are desegregated

  • MLK is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham Alabama.

    He writes his seminal "Letter from Birmingham Jail."

  • 24th Amendment abolishes the poll tax

    The poll tax made it difficult for poor blacks to vote.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964 is signed.

    President Johnson signed it. It prohibits discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion, or national origin.

  • Malcolm X is shot to death

  • Martin Luther King is shot and killed

  • President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968

    prohibiting disci=rimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.

  • Senator Edward Kennedy introduces the Civil Rights Act of 2008