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“To those who say, my friends, to those who say, that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are 172 years [too] late!" Hubert Humphrey explains how rights for african-americans should've been changed 172 years ago, instead of during the time period he was in. He believed that people should've accepted the african american community long ago. -
Brown v. Board of Education, a consolidation of five cases into one, is decided by the Supreme Court, effectively ending racial segregation in public schools. Although, many schools were still segregated still. -
A 14-year-old from Chicago is brutally murdered in Mississippi for allegedly flirting with a white woman. His murderers are acquitted, and the case bring international attention to the civil rights movement. -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. -
Nine Black students known as the “Little Rock Nine” are blocked from integrating into Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. President Eisenhower later on sends troops to protect the “Little Rock Nine," still end up getting harrased. -
Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957 into law to help protect voter rights. The law allows federal prosecution of those who suppress another’s right to vote. -
The map shows what segregation was like in different states across the United States. You can see what states forbid segregation (grey), where states have mandatory segregation (red/orange) or optional segregation (blue), and where there is no school segregation legislation (pink). -
Four African American college students in Greensboro, North Carolina refuse to leave a Woolworth’s “whites only” lunch counter without being served. -
Approximately 250,000 people take part in The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Martin Luther King Jr. gives his “I Have A Dream” speech as the closing address in front of the Lincoln Memorial, stating, “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.’” -
A bomb at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama kills four young girls and injures several other people prior to Sunday services. The bombing fuels a violent and angry protests. -
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, preventing employment discrimination due to race, color, sex, religion or national origin. Title VII of the Act establishes the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or also known as the (EEOC) to help prevent workplace discrimination. -
"You can’t separate peace from freedom
because no one can be at peace
unless he has his freedom." Malcolm X explains how if you acknowledge you’re free, you say you always have a choice, and you take responsibility for the choices you make. -
Black religious leader Malcolm X is assassinated during a rally by members of the Nation of Islam. -
In the Selma to Montgomery March, around 600 civil rights marchers walk to Selma, Alabama to Montgomery to the states capital in protest of Black voter suppression. Local police block their way and brutally attack them. After successfully fighting in court for their right to march, Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders lead two more marches and finally reach Montgomery on March 25. This would later be known as the "Bloody Sunday." -
This chart shows economic wealth gap between white v black people across the country starting at 1960 through 2010. As you can see throughout the graph the median household wealth has skyrocketed for white americans throughout the years, while african-americans have had a steady state of african americans not having many households compared to white americans. -
Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated on the balcony of his hotel room in Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray is later convicted of the murder in 1969 and sentenced 100 years imprisonment. -
The "Philadelphia plan" required government contractors in Philadelphia to hire minority workers, meeting certain hiring goals by specified dates. It was planned to combat institutionalized discrimination in skilled building trade unions that prevented fair and impartial hiring of African Americans. Later on, the plan was extended to other cities. -
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” Obama tries to explain how if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. Showing that the Civil Rights Movement needed to take action in that moment in order for things to be the way they are in today's society. -
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https://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement/civil-rights-movement-timeline
http://www.nps.gov/subjects/civilrights/modern-civil-rights-movement.htm
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