Civil Rights movement

By codybholloway

  • Jackie Robinson MLB Debut

  • The 24th Amendment abolishes the poll tax, which originally had been instituted in 11 southern states after Reconstruction to make it difficult for poor blacks to vote

  • SCLC established

  • 4 NC A&T students sit in on segregated lunch line

  • Freedom Riders began testing Southern Segregation Laws

  • James Meredith becomes the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi

  • Mississippi's NAACP field secretary, 37-year-old Medgar Evers, is murdered outside his home

  • girls are killed in bombing of a Birmingham church where civil rights leaders met

  • Malcom X murdered

  • Blacks begin a march to Montgomery

  • The militant Black Panthers are founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.Read more: Civil Rights Movement

  • the Supreme Court rules that prohibiting interracial marriage is unconstitutional

  • James Earl Ray murders Murders Martin Luther King

  • Overriding President Reagan's veto, Congress passes the Civil Rights Restoration Act,

  • President Bush signs Civil Righrs act of 1991

  • The first race riots in decades erupt in south-central Los Angeles after a jury acquits four white police officers for the videotaped beating of African American Rodney King.