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Long Civil Rights Movement Timeline

Long Civil Rights Movement Timeline. Teaching American History Institute Summer 2013. Emancipation Proclamation goes into effect. Thirteenth Amendment is adopted, abolishing slavery and indentured servitude.

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Long Civil Rights Movement Timeline

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  1. Long Civil Rights Movement Timeline Teaching American History Institute Summer 2013

  2. Emancipation Proclamation goes into effect

  3. Thirteenth Amendment is adopted, abolishing slavery and indentured servitude

  4. Fifteenth Amendment is ratified, allowing male citizens the right to vote despite “race, color, or previous condition of servitude”

  5. Tennessee passes the first of the post-Civil War “Jim Crow” segregation laws

  6. Mississippi enacts its first poll tax

  7. Supreme Court rules separate is equal in Plessy v. Ferguson

  8. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded

  9. The first training program for African American pilots is established at the Tuskegee Institute

  10. Truman issues Executive Order 9981, establishing equality and opportunity in the Armed Services regardless of race, religion or national origin

  11. In Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, the Supreme Court rules unanimously against school segregation, overturning Plessy v. Ferguson

  12. Rosa Parks helps trigger a year-long boycott of the Montgomery, AL, bus system

  13. Supreme Court rules that the segregation of Montgomery buses is unconstitutional

  14. The U.S. Military is used to desegregate Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, AR.

  15. College students in Greensboro, NC, hold a sit-in to integrate a Woolworth’s lunch counter, launching a wave of similar protests elsewhere.

  16. The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) begins to organize Freedom Rides through the South to desegregate interstate public bus travel.

  17. Malcolm X becomes the national minister of the Nation of Islam. He champions separatism and black pride while rejecting the nonviolent Civil Rights movement.

  18. More than 200,000 people march on Washington, DC, in the largest ever civil rights demonstration.

  19. Four African American girls are killed in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL.

  20. During “Freedom Summer,” the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), CORE, the NCAACP, and others, organize a massive African American voter registration drive.

  21. President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act, giving the federal government the power to prosecute discrimination in employment, voting and education.

  22. Martin Luther King Jr. organizes a protest march from Selma to Montgomery, for African American voting rights.

  23. The Voting Rights Act is passed, outlawing various practices used to disenfranchise African American voters in the South.

  24. The Black Panther Movement is founded in Oakland, California.

  25. Martin Luther King Jr., is assassinated in Memphis, TN. His murder sparks a week of rioting across the country.

  26. The Equal Employment Opportunity Act is passed, prohibiting job discrimination on the basis of race, as well as several other factors.

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