A timeline of The Civil Rights Movement

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A timeline ofThe Civil Rights Movement

• 1954-1968

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1954

• May 17thBrown v. the Board of Education
  Separate but Equal doctrine

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1955

• August 28th Fourteen year old Emmett Till
  murdered
• September Roy Bryant J.W. Milam tried, fount
  not guilty for murder of Emmett Till
• December 1st Montgomery, AL. Rosa Parks
  arrested for refusing to give up seat to white
  passenger on city bus

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• December 1st The Montgomery Improvement Assoc.
  led by Martin Luther King, Jr. organizes
  Montgomery Bus Boycott (lasts for over a year)

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1956

• December 21st U.S. Supreme Court affirms
  District Courts decision that segregation on
  buses is unconstitutional Montgomery buses
  desegregated

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1957

• Jan./Feb. Southern Christian Leadership
  Conference (SCLC) founded by Martin Luther King,
  Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Fred Schuttlesworth,
  Bayard Rustin
• September 25th The Desegregation of Little Rock
  Central High

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1958

• June 30th NAACP v. Alabama, NAACP given
  constitutional right of freedom of assembly to
  keep membership a secret

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1960

• February 1st Woolworth lunch counter sit-in.
  Greensboro, NC.
• April 1960 Student Nonviolent Coordination
  Committee (SNCC) created by students at Shaw
  University to organize sit-ins

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1961

• May 4th- The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
  uses freedom riders to protest segregation
  interstate transportation
• 1962
• October 1st James Meredith becomes first
  student to attend Missippi University

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• 1963
• August 28th March on Washington 250,000 people
  gather to hear Kings I Have a Dream speech
• 1964
• Summer known as Freedom Summer
• June 21st Three Mississippi Freedom Summer
  workers (James E. Cheney, Andrew Goodman,
  Michael Schwerner murdered
• July 2nd Civil Rights Act signed by President
  Johnson

• 1965
• February 1st Martin Luther King and 250
  marchers arrested in Selma, AL for voting rights
• February 21st Malcolm X is shot
• March 7th Bloody Sunday voting rights
  marchers are beaten by state troopers
• August 6th Voting Rights Act of 1965 signed
  into law by President Johnson

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1966

• October The Black Panther Party founded in
  Oakland, CA.

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1967

• June 12th Loving v. Virginia, Supreme Court
  rules prohibition of interracial marriage
  unconstitutional
• October 2nd Thurgood Marshall becomes first
  black Supreme Court Justice

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April 4th, 1968

• Martin Luther King, Jr. is shot killed by James
  Earl Ray