American Civil Rights

Use the links below for research on your Civil Rights Timeline.  You may also use : NC Wise Owl, Sirs Decades and Gale Student Resources

Some of the links below will take you to the Primary Document. - 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 of Topeka, Kansas
    Separate in Not Equal - Smithsonian Institute
    
1954: ( August )   Emmett Till
      
1954: (December 1)  Rosa Parks
    Montgomery Bus Boycotts

1957: ( September)  Little Rock Nine
    Press reports about the Little Rock Nine

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 beings 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