US Civil Rights Movement

Rosa Parks and the NAACP

Dec 10, 1943

Rosa Parks joined the NAACP in December of 1943. She was elected secretary of the association.

National Assosiation for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP)

Apr 10, 1946

In 1946, the NAACP won the Morgan v Virginia case where the Supreme Court banned states from having segregated facilities on busses and trains that crossed state borders.

NAACP

Apr 10, 1954

NAACP won its landmark legal case - Brown v the Board of Education. The Supreme Court declared that schools could be "separate and equal". The NAACP found it easy to prove that children at white-only schools in the south had nearly $38 spent on each one of them per year. For children at black-only schools, the figure was just over $13. The Supreme Court deemed that this was not "equal" and declared schools that were segregated unconstitutional.

Emmett Till

Aug 28, 1955

Emmett Till was murdered at the age of 14, for flirting with a white woman. At their trial, Till's murderers were aquitted, sparking The Civil Rights Movement.

Rosa Parks

Dec 1, 1955

Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing her seat to a white person, on a racially segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Dec 5, 1955

Martin Luther King Jr was elected as president of the Montgomery Improvement Assosiation, making him the official spokesman for the boycott.

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Nov 13, 1956

The Montgomery Bu Boycott gets their victory, with the Supreme Court ruling bus segregation unconstitutional.

Martin Luther King Jr.

May 17, 1957

King forms the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to fight segregation and achieve civil rights. On May 17, he speaks to a crowd of 15,000 in Washington, D.C.

Washington March

Aug 28, 1963

The March on Washington is the largest civil rights demonstration in history, with nearly 250,000 people in attendance. It is at this March that King makes famous the 'I Have a Dream' speech.

NAACP

May 13, 1964

In 1964, the Supreme Court ended the eight year campaign by Alabama officials to ban the activities of the NAACP. In this year, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Dec 10, 1964

Martin Luther King Jr. receives the Nobel Peace Prize. He is the youngest to receive this award, at 35.

Black Panther Party

Oct 15, 1966

Founded in Oakland by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. Origionally called for the protection of black neighbourhoods from black brutality.

Ten Point Program

Oct 16, 1966

6- We want completely free health care for all black and oppressed people.
7- We want an immediate end to police brutality and murder of black people, other people of colour, all oppressed people inside the United States.
8- We want an immediate end to all wars of aggression.

Ten point program

Oct 16, 1966

The Black Panther Party introduced what was called the ten point program.
1- We want freedom. We want the power do determine the destiny of our black and oppressed communities.
2- We want full employment for our people.
3-We want an end to the robbery by the capitalists of our black and oppressed communities.
4- We want decent housing, fit for the shelter of human beings.
5- We want decent education for our people that exposes the true nature of decadent American society.

Ten Point Program

Oct 16, 1966

9- We want freedom for all black and oppressed people now held in U.S federal, state, county, city and military prisons and jails. We want trials by a jury of peers for all persons charged with so-called crimes under the laws of this country.
10- We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, peace and peoples' community control of modern technology.'

Martin Luther King Jr. Assasination.

Apr 4, 1968

Martin Luther King Jr was fatally shot while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.