Civil Rights Movenment

By agraun

  • Harry Truman issues Executive Order

    President Harry S. Truman issued an executive order to desegregate the armed forces. Executive Order 9981 created the Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services. He also pledged to issue executive orders to end discrimination in the armed forces and civil service.

  • Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court

    Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.

  • Montgomery bus boycott

    The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. It was a seminal event in the civil rights movement.

  • Nonviolent Protests( Martin Luther King Jr.)

    As the leader of the nonviolent Civil Rights Movement of the 1950's and 1960's, Martin Luther King Jr. traversed the country in his quest for freedom. His involvement in the movement began during the bus boycotts of 1955 and was ended by an assassins bullet in 1968.

  • " Little Rock Nine"

    The "Little Rock Nine" was a group of nine African Americans students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. The enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas.

  • Civil Rights Act

    The Civil Rights Act of 1957, Pub L. 85-315 71 Stat. 634, enacted September 9, 1957 a federal voting rights bill,was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875.

  • North Carolina Boycott

    Four college students in Greensboro, North Carolina refuse to leave a Woolworth's "whites only" lunch counter while being served. Their nonviolent demonstration sparks similar "sit-ins" throughout the city and in other states.

  • President John F. Kennedy Intervenes

    Governor George C. Wallace stands in a doorway at the University of Alabama to block two black students from registering.The standoff continues until President John F. Kennedy sends the National Guard to the campus.

  • The March On Washington

    The March On Washington for Jobs and Freedom, The March On Washington, or The Great March On Washington, was held in Washington D.C. on Wednesday August 28, 1963. The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans.

  • Bombing in Birmingham

    The 16th Street Baptist Street Bombing was an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African American Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sunday September 15, 1963, when four members of the Ku Klux Klan planted at least 15 sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device beneath the steps located on the east side of the church.

  • The Signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

    This act, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on July 2, 1964, prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal. This document was the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction.

  • Malcolm X Assassination

    Malcolm X was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist. Some saw him as a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crime against black Americans; others accused him of preaching racism and violence.

  • Selma to Montgomery March

    The Selma to Montgomery marches, were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery.

  • The Signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

    The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.

  • Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination

    Martin Luther King Jr., an American clergyman and civil rights leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4 1968 at 6:01 p.m. CST. He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital where he died at 7:05 p.m.

  • The Signing of the Fair Housing Act

    The law made it illegal to discriminate on the basis of race, color, disability, religion, sex, familial, or national origin in housing. But since its passage, it has only been selectively enforced.