Events For the Civil Rights Movement By AbigailRegan Period: Oct 24, 1850 to Oct 24, 2010 Events of the Civil Rights Movement - 19th and 20th Centuries Oct 24, 1861 American Civil War Oct 24, 1863 Emancipation Proclamtion Oct 24, 1870 Fifteenth Amendment Oct 24, 1875 Civil Rights Act of 1875 signed Oct 24, 1897 Plessy v. Ferguson Oct 24, 1903 The Talented Tenth and The Souls of Black Folk is published Written by W.E.B. Du Bois Oct 24, 1916 Great Migration starts, lasts until 1940 Oct 24, 1917 East St. Louis riot and Houston riot Oct 24, 1925 American Negro Labor Congress is formed Oct 24, 1933 Hocutt v. Wilson trial Unsuccessful Oct 24, 1943 Detroit race riot in Michigan Oct 24, 1944 United Negro College Fund is incorprated Oct 24, 1944 Miami hires its first black police officers Oct 24, 1947 American Crusade against lynching Oct 24, 1951 Desegrigation of the Army Oct 24, 1954 Denial of the Supreme Court Black children are denied from a white school, against Supreme Court ruling. Oct 24, 1976 Black History Month Black History Month is founded Oct 24, 1988 Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1988