Civil Rights Movement Timeline

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  • The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

    Though we are not sure the exact date CORE was founded by an interracial group of children.

  • The Beginning of the Civil Rights Movement

    The civil rights movement started on December 1st 1950.

  • Court Decision

    The . Supreme Court decision brought up a new era in the difficult struggle with Civil Rights.
  • Rosa Parks Arrested

    Rosa Parks Arrested

    Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1st 1955. She wouldn't get up from her seat in order togive a white person a seat and she was arrested for it.
  • SCLC Was Created

    SCLC Was Created

    The SCLC was the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was established on January 10th, 1957, The groups purpose was to fight for civil rights.
  • Attempts comply with Brown Decision

    Attempts comply with Brown Decision

    NAACP and Daisy Bates were the first to attempt to comply with the brown decision.
  • First Freedom Rider Bus Left

    First Freedom Rider Bus Left

    On May 4th, 1961 the very first Freedom Rider bus left with seven african americans and six white people on it.
  • Freedom Rider Bus Was Bombed

    Freedom Rider Bus Was Bombed

    On may 14th, 1961, one of the two freedom rider buses were bombed. The bus blew up into flames and many, MANY people were hurt.
  • MJK and SCLC Joined the Albany Movement

    MJK and SCLC Joined the Albany Movement

    Martin Luther King and the SCLC entered the albany struggle but they failed to gain significant results and the experience branded King with a humiliating defeat.

  • George Wallace Blocks Black Students

    On August 11th, 1963, George Wallace, Alabamas governor at the time, tried to ban black students from enrolling at the University of Alabama.