African American Civil Rights Movement

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  • Truman Desegregates Armed Services

    Truman Desegregates Armed Services

    Executive Order 9981
  • Brown v Board of Education

    Brown v Board of Education

    Unanimous Decision by Warren Court
    "Separate is never equal"
    "All deliberate Speed"
  • Emmet Till's Murder's acquitted by all white jury in Mississippi

    Emmet Till's Murder's acquitted by all white jury in Mississippi

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Supreme Court rules buses desegregated
  • SCLC established to organize civil rights movement

    SCLC established to organize civil rights movement

    MLK is the first president
    Nonviolence and civil disobediance
  • Little Rock 9 integrate Central High School

    Little Rock 9 integrate Central High School

  • SNCC--organization of young blacks in civil rights movement

    SNCC--organization of young blacks in civil rights movement

  • James Meredith Integrates U of Mississippi

    James Meredith Integrates U of Mississippi

    JFK Sends 5,000 troops to protect Meredith
  • Letter from Brimingham Jail

    Letter from Brimingham Jail

    Individuals have a moral duty to disobey unjust laws.
  • Birmingham Sheriff Bull Connor

    Birmingham Sheriff Bull Connor

    Dogs and firehoses attack young demonstratorsUses dogs and firehoses on teenaged demonstrators
  • Medgar Evers, NAACP field secy, murdered in Mississippi

    Medgar Evers, NAACP field secy, murdered in Mississippi

    His murderer Bryan De La Beckwith was not convicted until 1993
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington

    I Have A Dream--MLK
  • 4 Black Girls killed by a bomb at 16th St, Baptist Church

    4 Black Girls killed by a bomb at 16th St, Baptist Church

    Birmingham, Alabama
  • 24th Amendment abolished Poll Tax

    24th Amendment abolished Poll Tax

  • LBJ signs Civil Rights Act of 1964

    LBJ signs Civil Rights Act of 1964

  • Freedom Summer--SNCC, CORE Register Voters

    Freedom Summer--SNCC, CORE Register Voters

    3 Civil Rights workers murdered in Mississippi
  • Malcolm X assasinated

    Malcolm X assasinated

    black nationalist and Muslim
  • Selma Marchers attacked on the Edmund Pettis Bridge

    Selma Marchers attacked on the Edmund Pettis Bridge

    support of Voting Rights Act
  • Voting Rights Act passed

    Voting Rights Act passed

  • Watts Riots

    Watts Riots

  • Black Panthers founded

    Black Panthers founded

    Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
  • "Black Power"

    "Black Power"

    Stokley Carmichael, SNCC radicalized
  • Loving v Virginia

    Loving v Virginia

  • Race Riots, Newark and Detroit

    Race Riots, Newark and Detroit

  • MLK Assassinated

    MLK Assassinated

    James Earl Ray
  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    Civil Rights Act of 1968

    prohibit discrimination in the sale, rental, financing of housing
  • AFFIRMATIVE ACTION-Executive Order 11246

    AFFIRMATIVE ACTION-Executive Order 11246

    Requires government contractors "to take affirmative action" in hiring and employment