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Top 10 Events of the Civil Rights Movement

By tork41

  • NAACP Established

    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People established

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    Decision handed down from Supreme Court, integrating schools

  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Bus boycotts are soon to follow

  • Little Rock Nine

    The Little Rock Nine, 9 students from Little Rock integrated the school with police protection and National Guard support.

  • SNCC Created

    Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee founded by Stokely Carmichael

  • 24th Amendment

    the 24th amendment is signed into law, banning the poll tax

  • I Have A Dream Speech

    Martin Luther King Jr. delivers "I Have Dream Speech" in Washington D.C.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964 signed into law by Lyndon B. Johnson

  • Malcolm X Shot

    Malcolm X murdered by Muslim radicalists

  • Martin Luther King Shot

    MLK shot and killed outside his hotel in Memphis, TN