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Civil Rights Movement Timeline
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The Civil Rights Movement
September 2
1954
23 African American students are prevented from going to all-white elementary schools in Montgumery, Alabama. This defys the Supreme Court ruling.
Summeries of Events
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Summeries of Events
March 2
1955
15 year old Claudette Colvin, refuses to give up her seat on the bus seat to a white person. She is the first to do so (9 months before Rose Parks).
March 2
1955
February 13
1956
Wilmington, Delaware's school board ends segregation.
February 13
1956
October 7
1957
The finance minister of Ghana is refused service at a retaurant in Delaware. The President hosts him at the White House as an apology on October 10.
October 7
1957
July
1958
Lunch counter sit-ins in Dockum Drugstore in Wichita, Kansas, sponcered by NAACP Youth Council, are sucsefful in geting the store to change it's policy after 3 weeks of protesting.
This resulted in all Dockum ctores in Kansas being desegregated.
January 9
1959
A Federal judge removes segregation on Atlanta, Georgia, buses
Another judge orders Montgomery registrars to comply with the Civil Rights Commission.
January 9
1959
November 14
1960
Ruby Bridges becomes the first African-American child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South.
(Following court-ordered integration in New Orleans, Louisiana.)
May 21
1961
MLK jr., the Freedom Riders, and a congregation of 1,500 at the First Baptist Church in Montgomery are besieged by mob of segregationists; Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, sends federal marshals to protect them.
May 21
1961
September 9
1962
In Sasser, Gerogia, two black churches used by the SNCC for voter registration are burned.
September 9
1962
September 15-16
1963
The bombing of Street Baptist Church in Birmingham results in the death of four young girls.
That same day, in response to the killings, the Alabama Project, which later developed into the Selma Voting Rights Movement, is created.
September 15-16
1963
July 2
1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is passed, banning discrimination based on "race, color, religion, sex or national origin" in employment practices and public accommodations.
July 2
1964
March 7
1965
Bloody Sunday
March 7
1965
June 16
1966
Stokely Carmichael coins the term Black Power after using it in a speech.
June 16
1966
June 12
1967
The Supreme Court rules that prohibiting interracial marriage is unconstitutional.
June 12
1967
April 4& 11
1968
April 4 – Martin Luther King, Jr. is shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee.
April 11 – The Civil Rights Act of 1968 is passed.