Civil Rights Timeline

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    Civil Rights Events

  • NAACP was formed

    NAACP was formed

  • First national demonstration of the KKK in Washington DC

    First national demonstration of the KKK in Washington DC

  • Truman issues executive order outlawing segregation in US Military

    Truman issues executive order outlawing segregation in US Military

  • Brown vs. Board of Education in Topeka, Kansas

  • 9 Black students try to enter Central High School

    9 Black students try to enter Central High School
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  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus to a white man

    Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus to a white man

  • MLK, Charles K. Steele&Fred L. Shuttleworth form SCLC

  • 4 Black students hold a sit in at Greensboro, NC

  • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

  • Freedom Rides Begin

    Freedom Rides Begin

  • James Merideth becomes 1st black student to entroll in University of Miss.

  • MLK jailed for anti-segregation protests in Birmigham

  • "Bull" Connor uses dogs&fire hoses against protesters

    "Bull" Connor uses dogs&fire hoses against protesters

  • Medgar Evers is killed

    Medgar Evers is killed

  • March on Washington

  • 16th St Baptist Church is bombed killing four girls

    16th St Baptist Church is bombed killing four girls

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964 is passed

  • Bodies of 3 civil rights workers were found

  • Malcom X shot to death

    Malcom X shot to death

  • Selma to Montgomery march, "Bloody Sunday"

  • President Johnson orders Executive Order 11246