Civil Rights Movements

By angelaa.ah

  • 1955

    1955
    August 28th- A Boy named Emmett Till was falsely accused for looking at a women and was lynched
    December 1st- Refused to give her seat up in a bus for a white person

  • 1957

    1957
    Jan.–Feb- MLK establish the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and then became president of the group
    September 2nd- Nine black students are blocked from entering the school on the orders of Governor, also known as The Little Rock Nine

  • 1958

    1958
    September 4 – Justice Department sues under Civil Rights Act to force Terrell County, Georgia to register blacks to vote
    September 12 – In Cooper v. Aaron the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the court choose what schools shut down

  • 1960

    March 4, 1960 – Houston's first sit-in, led by Texas Southern University students and at a super market
    March 19 – San Antonio becomes first city to integrate lunch counters.

  • 1961

    May 4- group called Freedom Riders goal is to integrate buses
    May 14- their(freedom riders) bus is attack and burned then a mob caught them and the freedom riders went to jail

  • 1962

    September 20 – James Meredith is no able to become the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
    November 20 – President Kennedy held 1960 presidential campaign promise to get rid of housing segregation by signing Executive Order 11063 banning segregation in Federally funded housing.

  • 1963

    April 7 – Ministers John Thomas Porter, Nelson H. Smith and A. D. MLK march with 2,000 marchers to protest the jailing of movement leaders in Birmingham.
    April 12 – MLK got arrested in Birmingham for "parading without a permit".

  • 1964

    January 23 – Twenty-fourth Amendment abolishes the poll tax for Federal elections.
    June 9 – peaceful marchers beaten, arrested and tear gassed by Tuscaloosa, Alabama police this is also called "Bloody Tuesday"

  • 1965

    February 18 – After a good protest march in Marion, Alabama, state troopers break it up and one shoots Jimmie Lee Jackson. He died on February 26
    February 21 – Malcolm X is assassinated in Manhattan, New York

  • 1966

    January 10- Vernon Dahmer gets wounded by a bomb in Hattiesburg Mississippi
    The Chicago Housing Movement is let by MLK and James Bevel

  • 1968

    February 8 – The Orangeburg Massacre occurs during university protest in South Carolina.
    April 4 – MLK is shot and killed in Memphis, Tennesse