Civil Rights Movement Timeline

1955

Montgomery Bus Boycott

December 5th, 1955

• African Americans boycotted riding city buses in Montegomery Alabama
• The boycott took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956
• Befor the boycottng took place, Rosa Parks refused to sit in the back of the bus and was arrested
• Rosa Parks was untimately the inspiration to this boycott

1957

Little Rock Nine

September 25, 1957-

• The little rock 9 were 9 African American students who were enrolled in an all white school
• The integration was the outcome of Brown v School board case after segregation was proved unconstitutional
• The national guard was in attendence at the schoool
• President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort the little rock 9

1960

February 1, 1960 – July 25, 1960- Greensboro sit-in

February 1, 1960

• The greensboro sit in was at a segrated Woolsworth lunch counter in Greensboro North Carolina
• The sit in spread to different collge towns in the south and the lunch counter was forced change their policies and inspired other segregated lunch counters to change as well
• This affected African Americans in college in the South

• The March on washington took place in August of 1963 and more than 250,000 people came together in Washington to protest for Jobs and freedom
• Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I have a dream" speach during the non-violent protest

August 28, 1963

August 28, 1963

September 15, 1963

A bomb at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham

September 15, 1963

• A baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was a targeted bomb site for racial hatred
• The bomb took place mid morning and killed 4 African American girls and injured more than 20 others inside the church
• The court trial for suspects, who were all KKK members, closed in the 60s but reopened in the 90s and lasted until May of 2000. Two of the suspects were finally sentenced to life in prision

July 1964

Civil Rights act

Civil Rights Act 1964

• The Civil Rights Act was enforced to end segregation in public places and abolished discrimination in employment for race, color, religion, sex or national origin
• President Lyndon Johnson signed the civil rights in 1964 and African American and other minorities were given the rights to not be denied service from public places anymore

August 1964

Mississippi freedom summer project

August 1964

• Voter drive aimed to increase number of African American Voters
• The movement was organized by civil rights organizations like the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
• Reason
• Many risks were taken during the MIssissippi Freedom summer project

March 1965

Selma to Montgomery march

March 7, 1965

• Part of a civil rights series in Alabama
• In effort to register African American voters, the 54 mile route march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery, many were faced with violence
• even tho the Civil rights act was already set in place, resistance to the act by white southerners resulted in violence to African American pushing voting rights

Voting right act 1965

Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Goal was to overcome legal barriers aimed at African Americans overiding their right to vote
• Civil rights activists who promoted voting rights for African Americans were at risks of violence as seen in the Freedom Summer and Selma montegomry march

April 4th 1968

Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated

April 4, 1968

• Martin Luther King Jr. was a famous civil rights activists and promoted non-violent protesting
• On April 4th he was shot from his balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee
• He is known for his famous "I have a dream speech" and got a lot of people behind Civil Rights and looking in on inequalties in America at this time

Civil Rights act 1968

Civil Rights Act of 1968

• Also known as the Fair Housing Act, this act prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin or sex
• On the same day as the senate vote, Martin Luther King Jr was fatally shot and killed
• the NAACP was a firm effetive leader in getting this act passed

December 1969

Murder of Fred Hampton

December 4, 1969

• Black panther leader fred Hampton was killed by a police shooting in 1969
• The raid was an effort to get rid of the Balck Panther party which wanted to moniter olice activities within African American communities
• This party caused a lot of controversity and violence within cmmunities of Hampton and fired up more disputes around the country