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In the summer of 1919, over 25 race riots occurred. 38 were killed in Chicago. Blacks and some veterans were lynched in the south. http://faculty.polytechnic.org/gfeldmeth/chart.civrights.html
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Concerned about disloyalty, President Franklin Roosevelt sends Japanese Americans to concentration camps. http://faculty.polytechnic.org/gfeldmeth/chart.civrights.html
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Pasadena resident and UCLA alum Robinson breaks the color barrier in a sport that had been segregated or nearly 50 years by being the first black to play major league baseball. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jackie-robinson-breaks-color-barrier
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President Truman uses the executive order to integrate armed forces. http://faculty.polytechnic.org/gfeldmeth/chart.civrights.html
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The court declared separate schools for blacks, and whites unconstitutional.
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Rosa Parks starts a 381 day bus boycott organized by Martian Luther King Jr. She was put in jail because of it. http://faculty.polytechnic.org/gfeldmeth/chart.civrights.html
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On August 28, a 14-year-old African-American boy, Emmett Till, from Chicago, was kidnapped, beaten and shot in the head because he allegedly whistled at a white woman in a store.
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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was formed in 1957 just after the Montgomery Bus Boycott had ended. The Conference’s main aim was to advance the cause of civil rights in America but in a non-violent manner. https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/
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Freedom Riders were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the South to protest segregated bus terminals. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedom-rides
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It was the largest gathering for civil rights of its time. An estimated 250,000 people attended the March on Washington for jobs and freedom on August 28, 1963, coming from all over the country. https://www.nps.gov/articles/march-on-washington.htm
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The poll tax that kept blacks from voting was outlawed. And more blacks turn away from white supremacy, and begin to vote. http://faculty.polytechnic.org/gfeldmeth/chart.civrights.html
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In first of more than 100 riots, Los Angles black suburb erupts in riots, burning, and looting. 34 people were killed http://faculty.polytechnic.org/gfeldmeth/chart.civrights.html
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After it was approved, Southern black voter registration grows by over 50% and black officials are elected to various positions. In Mississippi, black voter registration grew from 7% to 67%. http://faculty.polytechnic.org/gfeldmeth/chart.civrights.html
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While supporting sanitation workers strike in Memphis, King is shot by James Earl Ray. Riots result in 125 cities. ( http://faculty.polytechnic.org/gfeldmeth/chart.civrights.html )
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President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968 on April 11. This act prohibits discrimination by renters or sellers of property. http://faculty.polytechnic.org/gfeldmeth/chart.civrights.html
