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The Jim Crow Laws were part of a system that segregated almost everything between blacks and whites. They are the main reason the civil rights movement occurred.
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The U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the racist policy of segregation by legalizing “separate but equal”
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAACP, was founded in response to lynchings and riots in 1909. It worked against lynching and segregation in the 20th century and is still together today.
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The Congress of Racial Equality, or CORE, was founded in 1942. It was a leading civil rights organization. CORE helped the SNCC create the Freedom Rides, which tried to desegregate public facilities. Also similar to the SNCC, it started as a nonviolent organization but slowly shifted away from that.
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Robinson was the first African-American to play in major league baseball.
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The U.S. Supreme Court unanimous decision that overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine in public schools
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Emmett Till was murdered in Money, Mississippi.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery City Bus and was arrested.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott begins.
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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference dates back to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Leaders of the civil rights movement met to organize specific movements.
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The Little Rock 9 enter Central High School as federal troops oversee the situation sent by President Eisenhower
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4 black college students sat at an all-white lunch counter and started a sit-in protest at a Woolworth’s store.
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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC, was formed in 1960 to help students take part in nonviolent acts to stop segregation. The organization helped hold many of these events until a new leader led to its destruction.
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Freedom riders begin a bus ride through the South to protest segregation.
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Enrolled at the University of Mississippi
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Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham protesting in the “most segregated city in America.”
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More than 250,000 people, march on Washington to demand immediate passage of the civil rights bill.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the premier legislation for Civil Rights into law.
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African American nationalist and religious leader, is assassinated by rival Black Muslims while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights.
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A march from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights begins.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law outlawing literacy tests.
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Huey Newton & Bobby Seale founded the “Black Power” political group known as the Black Panthers.
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The Kerner Commission report stated that white racism was to blame for increasing riots. It also said that unless large precautions were taken, the riots would continue. The Commission was appointed by president Johnson to try to stop riots.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis.
