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Timeline of the African American Civil Rights Movement

1954-1958

1954

Brown VS Board of Education

1965

Malcom X

1956

Reverend Fred Shuttleworth

1955

Montgomery Bus Boycott

1963

Rain on the Children's Parade

1957

"Little Rock 9"

1963

The Klan strikes Again!

1965

Voting Rights Act

1964

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963

Where "While the World Watched" begins.

1968

King's death

1968

FBI

From May 2-3, 1963, Children's marches in downtown Birmingham are broken up police with attack dogs and fire hoses.

On June 13, 1963, a Klan member kills Mississippi Civil Rights leader Medgar Evers.

The "Little Rock 9" enter Central High under protection of the United States Army's 101st Airborne Division.

On February 21, 1965, Malcom X is assassinated

On December 25, 1956, Reverend Fred Shuttleworth's house is bombed in Birmingham.

On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court rules on the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans., and unanimously agreeing that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.

On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

On August 6, 1965, President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act outlawing literacy tests for voting eligibility in the South.

On April 4, 1968, Dr King is assassinated in Memphis.

In February of 1968, the FBI closes it's investigation of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing without filing charges.

On December 1, 1955, NAACP member Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus to a white passenger.

On December 5, 1955, Martin Luther King, Jr. supports Rosa and starts a bus boycott.

A bomb is planted at 16th Street Baptist Church killing 4 girls.

1968

1960

1965

1950

(End of Civil Rights Movement)

1955

1956

Supreme Court

1957

Ku Klux Klan

1963

Dr. King

1955

Emmett Till

1967

Thurgood Marshall

1963

The Dr. in DC

1965

March On!

1964

Nobel Peace

1963

The Governor

1968

"I've Been to the Mountaintop"

1963

JFK gets blown away

April 12, 1963.

Dr. King is arrested and locked up in a Birmingham jail.

On November 13,1956, the Supreme Court affirms ban on segregated seating on Alabama buses.

On October 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall is sworn as the first black Supreme Court justice.

On September 2, 1957, Klan members kidnap and castrate Edward Aaron in Birmingham

On August 28, 1955, Emmett Till is kidnapped and murdered in Mississippi.

On April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech in Memphis, Tenessee.

On March 25, 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. Leads thousands of nonviolent crusaders to the completion of a 54-mile pilgrimage from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

On June 11, 1963, Alabama Governor George Wallace stands in the doorway of University of Alabama to stop Vivian Malone and James Hood from enrolling.

On August 28, 1963, Dr Martin Luther King Jr. leads march on in Washington D.C., with more than 250,000 people in attendence.

On October 14, 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for advocating a policy of nonviolence.

On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas. This was a sad, sad day for the nation.

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