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The Black Civil Rights Movement
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1954
• Brown vs. Board of Education requires schools to integrate “with all deliberate speed.”
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August 1955
• Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi.
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1955
• Dec. 1: Rosa Parks arrested
• Dec. 5: Montgomery Improvement Association formed, MLK is named president
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1956
• Dec. 1956: Supreme Court desegregates buses
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1957-1961
• (Little Rock Nine enroll in Central Little Rock High)
• James Meredith is first black man to enroll at Ole Miss University
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1960
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee launches sit-ins to protest segregation.
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1961
• Freedom Rides: White and black activists ride buses throughout the South, protesting segregation.
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1963
• Protests in Birmingham draw national attention.
• MLK writes “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” to explain and defend civil disobedience
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1963
• March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
• MLK gives “I Have a Dream” speech
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1964
• LBJ signs Civil Rights Act of 1964.
• The law bans discrimination in all public places.
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1964
• Freedom Summer: CORE and SNCC recruit volunteers, mostly white college students, to work to increase voter registration in Mississippi.
• Three volunteers are murdered: James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman. Murder trial becomes national news.
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1964
• March from Selma to Montgomery
• Police brutality draws national attention
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1965
• Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Voting Rights Act of 1965, banning use of literacy tests and grandfather clauses
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Riots (1965, 1967)
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1966
• Stokely Carmichael announces SNCC’s new focus on Black Power
• Declares SNCC to be an all-black organization
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1960s
• Malcolm X preaches black nationalism and black separatism alongside the Nation of Islam
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1966
• Black Panther Party for Self Defense is founded in Oakland, CA
• Panthers create breakfast programs, medical clinics, Afrocentric schools, and patrol neighborhoods.
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1968
• Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Fair Housing Act) outlaws housing discrimination
• MLK is assassinated• RFK is assassinated• Vietnam War and
protests reach height of violence
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1969-1974
• Supreme court requires states to speed up integration, recommend busing.
• Resistance occurs throughout the country. In Boston, riots occur.
• Alexander v. Holmes Board of Ed. and Swann v. Charlotte Board of Ed
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1961-1976
• JFK, LBJ, and Nixon issue executive orders requiring businesses and colleges to enact affirmative action programs
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1977
• In Regents of University of California vs. Bakke, the Supreme Court rules that quota systems are unconstitutional.
• Race can only be one factor in hiring and admission to school.