Civil Rights Events Timeline

Congress Of Racial Equality (CORE)

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- A group of black and white students formed the Congress Of Racial Equality

- Took part in sit-ins, picket lines, the Montgomery bus boycott, freedom rides, the march on Washington

- Worked with MLK Jr.

-groups were created in 19 cities

- Organized activist campaigns against segregation

- helped register African Americans to vote

1942

Bloody Sunday

- March 7, 1965

- Protest march from Selma to Montgomery

- Alabama state troopers rushed the protesters at the Edmund Pettus Bridge

wielding whips, nightsticks, tear gas

- March 15, LBJ called on a new voting rights bill

- 52,000 total people marched from Selma to Montgomery where they were protected by U.S. Army troops

-Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965

-Protected African Americans from barriers while voting

1965

Watts Riots

- August 11, 1965 - August 16, 1965

- Los Angeles and Watts Residents

- Caused by the arrest of an African American Man

Patrol Officer pulled over a man he thought was drinking and driving

-Death of 34 people

-1,000 injured

-$40 million property destroyed

- The community's poverty added to the violence

-This is how citizens thought they could get change

1965

Jones V. Mayer

- Outlawed the exclusion of African Americans in certain parts of the city

- Started when Mayer company refused to sell Jones a home

-thought to be because of his race

- Went to United States Supreme Court

- sided with Jones

- First time congress could enforce the thirteenth amendment

- Prohibit private racial discrimination in the sale of property

1968

Fair Housing Act

- Prohibited discrimination when selling, renting, or financing a house

- Was the last great legislative achievement of the civil rights movements

- In early April, the bill was passed through Senate

-supported by leaders

-went to house of representatives

MLK Jr. called for open housing in Chicago

-bill was passed before his funeral

- From 1950 to 1980, the African American population in urban areas increased from 6.1 million to 15.3 million

- In 1988, Congress passed the Fair Housing Amendments Act that expanded the law to prohibit discrimination

1968

Poor People's Campaign

- Demanded that government creates plans with employment and housing problems

- Addressed inequalities within citizens

- African Americans, Whites, Native Americans, and Hispanic Americans from rural and urban areas came together in Washington, D.C.

- wanted to persuade congress to take actions on jobs and incomes

-demanded $12 billion Economic Bill Of Rights

- 50,000 people participated

- March from Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial

- 100 were arrested

- Marked a change of the civil rights movement

1968

Attica Prison Riot

- A riot began in the overcrowded prison after many complaints of racial bias and poor conditions. (5 days)

- 1,281 convicts

- 39 staff hostage

- 43 killed

- Broke through gate and into Times Square

- lawsuit between prision and state officals

- Prisioners accepted 8 million to share between 500 inmates

1971

National Black Political Convention

- March 10–12, 1972 in Gary, Indiana

- Gathered a cross section of people representing a wide range of political

philosophies

- Develop a unified political strategy for African Americans

- Goals

- raise the number of black politicians elected to office

- increase representation

- create an agenda for fundamental change.

1972

Sources

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History.com Editors. “Civil Rights Movement Timeline.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 4 Dec. 2017, https://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement/civil-rights-movement-timeline.

Miller, Darrell A. H. “White Cartels, the Civil Rights Act of 1866, and the History of Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co..” FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History, https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/flr/vol77/iss3/2/.

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