Civil Rights Movement 1960's

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  • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committe

    on febuary 1, 1960, the SNCC is founded at shaw university, providing young blacks with a place in the civil rights movement

  • Freedom Riders

    on may 4, 1961, many blacks began testing out the new interstate bus laws by riding them deep into the south

  • James Meredith

    becomes first black student to go to the university or mississippi

  • March on Washington

    around 200,000 civil rights protecters march on washington

  • JFK assassinated

    john F kennedy was shot and killed by oswald in dalas texas

  • 24th amendment

    the 24th amendment is passed getting rid of the poll tax

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Johnson signs the civil rights act of 1964, prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, or national origin

  • Malcolm X assassinated

  • March on Montgomery

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

  • Black Panthers founded

  • Stokely Carmichael --> Black power

  • MLK assassinated

  • Johnson signs Civil Rights act of 1968

  • Robert Kennedy assassinated