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American Civil Rights
Use the links below for research on your Civil Rights Timeline. You may also use :
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Gale Student Resources
Some of the links below will take you to Primary and Secondary source documents. - enlarge the image when necessary in order to read the document.
1948: ( July 26)
Executive Order 9981
1954: ( May 17)
Brown v. Board of Education
1954: ( August )
Emmett Till
1954: (December 1)
Rosa Parks
Montgomery Bus Boycotts
1957: ( September)
Little Rock Ni
ne
1960: ( February 1 )
Greensboro Sit in
1960-1966:
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee - Shaw University
1961: ( May 4)
Freedom Riders
1963: (April 16)
Martin Luther King
Letters from the Birmingham jail
1963: (June 11
)
President Kennedy's speech explaining why he sent National Guard to University of Alabama
1963: (May)
Sheriff Eugene "Bull" Connor
1963: ( August 28)
March on Washington
Photo from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial
1963: ( September 15 )
Birmingham, Alabama Church Bombing
1964: ( January 23)
The 24th Amendment
Voting Poll explained
1964: (July 2)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
1964: ( August 4 )
Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner murdered
1965: ( February 21 )
Malcolm X Assassinated
Malcolm X Biography
1965: (March 7 )
Selma to Montgomery March
1965: (August 10)
Voting Rights Act of 1965 - Photo
1965 ( August 11-17)
Watts Race Riots
Day in History - Watts Race Riots
1966
:
James Meredith begins his journey on the "March Against Fear" on June 6, from Memphis, Tennessee, to encourage African American Mississippians to register to vote.
1966: (October)
Black Panthers - Digital collection
Huey Newton Biography
1967: ( June 12)
Loving v. Virginia
1967: (July)
Detroit and Newark Race Riots
1967
:
Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African American Justice appointed to the Supreme Court on September 1.
1968: (April 4)
Martin Luther King - Newspaper article reporting assassination
1968: ( April 11)
Civil Rights Act of 1968
1971: (April 20)
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
