Civil Rights Timeline

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  • The Congress of Racial Equality

    Civil rights organization that played an important role in the Civil Rights Movement

  • Brown v.s Board of Education

    Courts declared that the state laws in which established seperate public schools for black and white students was unconstitutional

  • Emmett Till

    Young African American teen lynched in Mississippi becauuse he was reported for flirting with a white woman

  • Rosa Parks/ Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Rosa Parks was told to give up her seat on the bus for a white man and refused to do so. She was sent to jail because of this and the bus boycott was initiated by King and Ralph Abernathy and they demanded for equal rights for blacks on public transportation

  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference

    Fought the Jim Crow laws and the segregation that it put in place

  • The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

    made up of a group of young people who led the sit-in movement

  • Letter from Birmingham jail

    MLK wrote to the men of Congress and explained all the terrible hardships that African Americans had faced

  • "I Have a Dream" Speech

    MLK gave a speech about his hopes and aspirations for all races and equality

  • Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama bombing

    Bombing of the church as an act of racial discrimination

  • The 24th Amendment

    The right for citizens to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President

  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin

  • Malcolm X Assassination

    Shot by Elijah Muhammed 15 times

  • Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama

    State troopers violently attacked peaceful demonstrators in an attempt to stop the march for voting rights

  • The Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Signed by President Johnson. This law aimed for the rights African Americans to excercise their voting rights

  • Executive Order 11246-Affirmative action

    Prohibits federal contractors and federally-assisted construction constractors and subcontractors, who do over $10,000 in Government business in one year from discriminating in employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

  • The Black Panthers

    A revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization

  • Stockely Carmichael

    Active individual in the Civil Rights Movement and the Pan-African Movement

  • Martin Luther King assassination

    MLK was shot by James Earl Ray

  • The Civil Rights Act of 1968

    Prohibited the discrimination unto African Americans