Civil Rights Movement By mliaisyours Jul 26, 1948 Truman signs Executive Order 9981 May 17, 1954 Supreme Court rules segregation is unconstitutional Dec 1, 1955 Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat to a white person Jan 1, 1957 Martin Luther King, Charles K. Steele, and Fred L. Shuttlesworth establish the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Sep 1, 1957 Central High School accepts nine black students into the formally all white school Feb 1, 1960 Four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter Apr 1, 1960 The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is founded at Shaw University Oct 1, 1962 James Meredith becomes the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi Apr 16, 1963 Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, Alabama Jun 12, 1963 Mississippi's NAACP field secretary, 37-year-old Medgar Evers, is murdered outside his home Aug 23, 1963 About 200,000 people join the March on Washington. Jul 2, 1964 President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Apr 4, 1968 Martin Luther King, at age 39, is shot as he stands on the balcony outside his hotel room
