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Mr. Harry Truman issues Executive Order 9981 to end segregation in the Armed Services.
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Brown v. Board of Education, a consolidation of five cases into one, is decided by the Supreme Court. Ending racial segregation in public schools.
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Mrs. Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white person on a bus.
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Sixty black pastors and civil rights leaders from several states including Martin Luther King, Jr. meet in Atlanta, Georgia to coordinate nonviolent protests against racial discrimination and segregation.
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Nine black students are blocked from going to a High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Then later got escorted in but still got harassed.
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Four college students in Greensboro, North Carolina refuse to leave a Woolworth’s whites only lunch counter without being served.https://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement-timeline
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Governor George C. Wallace stands in a doorway at the University of Alabama to block two black students from registering.https://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement-timeline
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A bomb hit a Church in Birmingham, Alabama killing four little girls and injures several other people.https://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement-timeline
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Mr. Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, preventing employment discrimination due to race, color, sex, religion or national origin.https://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement-timeline
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Black religious leader Malcolm X is murdered by members of the Nation of Islam.https://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement-timeline
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In the Selma to Montgomery March, around 600 civil rights marchers walk to Selma, Alabama to Montgomery the state’s capital in protest of black voter suppression. Local police block and brutally attack them.https://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement-timeline
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President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to prevent the use of literacy tests as a voting requirement. It also allowed federal examiners to review voter qualifications and federal observers to monitor polling places.https://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement-timeline
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Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated on the balcony of his hotel room in Memphis, Tennessee.https://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement-timeline
