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Civil Rights Movement Timeline
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Civil Rights Movement Timeline
By: Daniel Shaw
Bush(2001-2009)
Obama(2009-)
- 2014: Civil rights investigation of Ferguson(E)
Truman(1945-1953)
- 1948: Executive order 9981
Eisenhower(1953-1961)
- 1954: Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka Kansas(L)
- 1955: Murder of Emmett Till(P); Arrest of Rosa Parks(E); Montgomery Bus Boycott launched(E)
- 1957: The Little Rock Nine(E); Governor Orval Faubus blocked kids from entering school(R); SCLC formed by MLK, Charles Steele, and Fred Shuttlesworth(P)
- 1960: 4 Black Students begin a Sit-in at N.C.(E)
- 1961: Mobs attack "Freedom Riders"(E)
Nixon(1969-1974)
- 1971: Swann vs. Charlotte-Mucklenburg Board of Education(L)
Ford(1974-1977)
Carter(1977-1981)
Reagan(1981-1989)
- 1988: Civil Rights Restoration Act(L)
1961
1989
1945
2001
1969
H.W. Bush(1989-1993)
- 1991: Race riots erupt after beating of Rodney King(E)
Clinton(1993-2001)
Kennedy(1961-1963)
- 1962: James Meredith becomes first black student at University of Mississippi(P)
- 1963: MLK arrested(E); "Bull" Connor uses hoses and dogs against civil rights protesters(R); bomb explodes in Birmingham church(R); March on Washington(E)
Johnson(1963-1969)
- 1964: Civil Rights Act of 1964(L)
- 1965: Malcom X shot to death(R); Voting Rights Act of 1965(L); March to Selma, Montgomery(E)
- 1966: Black Panthers formed by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale(P)
- 1967: Stokely Charmichael coins the term "black power"(P)
- 1968: MLK assassinated(R)
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