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Slaves are set free and become considered people, not property.
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On this day Malcolm X was born. Second most influential man fighitng for Black's rights, only losing out ot MLK.
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On this day Martin Luther King Jr. was born in ATL, Georgia. Little did his parents know he would be an extremely influetial factor not only in the Civil Rights Era, but in the history of the world.
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Founded this year.
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From Washington to New Orleans
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"It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin."
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Board of Education that is.
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Hernandez vs. Texas
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Murdered
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A bus was boycotted by blacks in Montgomery, AL
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Rosa Parks refused to sit on the back of the bus.
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9 Black Children attempt to go to Little Rock High School, It was previoulsy a White Only high school.
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He led a sit in at a lunch counter in North Carolina.
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4 Black students in N.C. boldly sit in at a segregated lunch counter
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The Student's Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded.
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James Meredith enrolls at the Universtiy of Mississippi. He is the first black student to enroll there.
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Mississippi's NAACP field secretary, 37-year-old Medgar Evers, is murdered outside his home Read more: Civil Rights Movement Timeline (14th Amendment, 1964 Act, Human Rights Law) — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html#ixzz1rK1WcLi1
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MLK delivers his "I have a dream" Specch.
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The Sixteenth Baptist Church is bombed in Birnmingham, Alabama.
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Lyndon B Johnson takes Presidency
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the 24th Amendment abolishes the Poll Tax that made it difficult for poor black to vote.
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Civil Rights Act enacted this day. Outlawed Discriminatino
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Malcolm X is assasinated in Harlem. The shooter is said to be of his own faith, Muslim.
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MLK and others march from Selma to Montgomery, AL in protest over voting rights.
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Outlawed discriminatory voting practices.
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5 day riots started by wrongful arresting of a black man.
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African-American organizaton that fought for "Black Power"
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MLK is assasinated in Memphis, Tenessee. James Earl Ray is convicted for the crime
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Prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
Signed by president Johnson.
