Civil Rights Movement Timeline
for kids
The main events and dates of the
of the background history and the
modern African American Civil Rights Movement can be
seen in the short, history Timeline for kids.
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline for kids
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1857
-
The
Dred
Scott Decision ruled that freed African-Americans
were not citizens and had no right to sue in a federal
court.
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1865
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The
series of laws called the
Black Codes were
passed to restrict the ex-slaves new found freedom.
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1866
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The
Civil Rights Act
of 1866 was passed to protect ex-slaves
from legislation such as the Black Codes
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1868
- The 14th Amendment relating to Civil
Rights nullified part of the Dred
Scott decision and prohibiting state laws that denied
citizens equal protection under the law.
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1875
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The
Civil Rights
Act of 1875 was a law protecting all citizens in
their legal and civil rights, but it
was not enforced, and the Supreme Court declared it
unconstitutional in 1883
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1880's
-
The
Jim Crow Laws
restricted the rights of African Americans
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1880's
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The political belief known as
Black Populism
emerged. It was a movement to increase the political
power of black farmers and laborers, working for
legislation in their interest.
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1895
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The
Atlanta Compromise was the name
given to the famous speech made by Booker T. Washington
urged
racial cooperation
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1896
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The
Plessy vs.
Ferguson Case
resulted in the Supreme Court deciding that the "separate
but equal" facilities satisfied the guarantees of 14th
Amendment, thus giving legal sanction to "Jim Crow"
segregation laws.
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1905
- The
Niagara
Movement was founded by W. E. B. Du Bois and William Monroe
Trotter and was the first organized African American
protest campaign in the 20th century
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1908
-
The
NAACP
(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) was
founded to strive for the elimination of racial discrimination
and Civil Rights.
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1914
-
Marcus Garvey founded of the Universal Negro Improvement
Association (UNIA) and the
Black Nationalist movement
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1930
- The
Nation of Islam (NOI) religious movement was founded in Detroit,
by Wallace Fard Muhammad. Members, later referred to as
the Black Muslims, were given Arabic names to replace
those that had originated in slavery.
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1948
-
President Harry S. Truman issued
Executive Order 9981 on July 26, 1948
abolishing racial discrimination in the United States Armed Forces
leading to the end of segregation in the services
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1954
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The
modern African-American Civil Rights Movement begins
(1954 - 1970).
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1954
- The segregation practices in the U.S.
school systems were challenged in the
Brown vs Board of Education case by the NAACP's chief counsel, Thurgood Marshall. The result of the legal case was that the
Supreme Court banned the practice of school segregation,
effectively overturning the "separate but equal" doctrine of Plessy
v. Ferguson.
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1955
-
Rosa Parks was arrested after she
refused to give up her seat on a racially segregated
bus.
Rosa Parks became known as the "the first lady of civil
rights"
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1955
-
Martin Luther King Jr. became the president of the Montgomery
Improvement Association which was organized due to
protests against the incident involving Rosa Parks, and the
Montgomery Bus Boycott
began.
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1957
- Congress passed the
Civil Rights Act of 1957 to ensure that all African Americans could
exercise their right to vote.
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1957
-
Dr Martin Luther King became President of the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1957
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The Little Rock Nine crisis regarding the refusal for
the admission of 9
African American students to the racially segregated
Little Rock Central High. President Eisenhower sent in
the National Guard to enforce integration at Little
Rock's Central High School in the face of violent White
opposition to de-segregation.
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1960
- Elijah Muhammad,
original name Elijah Poole, founded the
Nation of Islam and advocated black nationalism
and black separatism and called for the creation of a
independent black states on American soil. His most
famous disciples included civil rights activists Malcolm
X and Louis Farrakhan.
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1960
- Lunch counter
sit-in by four college students in Greensboro, N.C.
begins and spreads throughout the South.
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1960
- The Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded and organized
'Sit-ins' and throughout the Deep South.
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Movement Timeline for kids
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1961
- The Congress of
Racial Equality (CORE) organizes
Freedom Rides into the
South to test new Interstate Commerce Commission
regulations and court orders barring segregation in
interstate transportation.
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1962
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Fannie Lou Hamer was evicted from her farm after
registering to vote
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1962
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Mississippi race riots on the "Ole Miss" campus and the
town of Oxford when the registration of the first black
student, James Meredith, was refused
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1963
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Dr. Martin Luther King organized a massive peace
protest in the heavily segregated city of Birmingham, Alabama.
The Birmingham Peace Protest resulted in violence and.
Dr. Martin Luther King was arrested together with
hundreds of other protestors. Whilst imprisoned, MLK wrote his
famous Letter from Birmingham
Jail
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1963
- Dr. Martin Luther King meets with
President Kennedy who gives his full support to the civil rights movement.
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1963
- On June 19, 1963, President Kennedy
sent a comprehensive civil rights bill to Congress.
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1963
- The
March on Washington, on August 28, 1963, in which Dr. Martin
Luther King delivers his famous "I Have a Dream" speech
on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to a crowd
estimated at 250,000 that joined in
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1963
-
President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on
November 22, 1963
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1963
- Elijah Muhammad
suspended Malcolm X from the Nation of Islam who he felt
did not sufficiently support the civil rights movement
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1964
- Malcolm X founded
the Organization of Afro-American Unity, which advocated
black identity and held that racism, not the white race,
was the greatest enemy of African Americans.
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1964
- President Johnson signs the
Civil Rights Act of
1964 banning segregation and
discrimination based on race, nationality, or gender.
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1964
-
The Freedom Summer campaign was organized by
activists of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC)
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1964
- The Harlem Riots
began on July 16, 1964, when a police officer killed a
young black boy in Harlem. The Harlem Riots led to
one death, 144 injuries and 519 arrests
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1965
- Malcolm X was shot to death on
February 21, 1965 by Nation of Islam members
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1965
- The
Selma
March, led by Dr. Martin Luther King, took place on 25
March 1965 from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1965
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The
Voting Rights Act
of 1965
was passed to safeguard the right to
vote of Black Americans and bans the use of literacy
tests.
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1965
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The
Watts Riots broke out in an African
American neighborhood in Los Angeles and led to 34
deaths, 1,000 injuries and damage totaling $40 million.
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1966
- Stokely
Carmichael, a civil rights activist, made the black
nationalism rallying slogan, “Black Power” famous. The
Black Power movement included organizations such as the
Black Panther Party.
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1966
-
Martin Luther King Jr. appointed Jesse Jackson as
director of Operation Breadbasket, the economic arm of
the SCLC.
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1967
- In Newark, on July
12, 1967, police beat a black cab driver while trying to
arrest him. This sparked the Newark Riots in which 23
people were killed and nearly $11 million of damage was
caused
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1967
- Muhammad Ali,
formerly Cassius Clay, was stripped of his heavyweight
boxing title for resisting military draft as a Muslim
minister in the Nation of Islam.
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1967
- The Detroit Riots broke out and
President Lyndon B. Johnson sent in federal troops to
help stop the shooting, looting and burning.
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1967
- State laws forbidding inter-racial
marriage were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme
Court.
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1968
-
Dr. Martin Luther King is killed on April 4, 1968 by James Earl Ray
as he stood on the balcony outside his room at the
Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee - refer to
MLK Assassination
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1968
- Senator Robert
Kennedy was shot and killed on June 6, 1968 in a Los
Angeles hotel whilst campaigning for the Democratic
nomination for president
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1968
- The Black Power
salute was made by the African-American athletes Tommie
Smith and John Carlos during their medal ceremony at the
1968 Mexico Olympics
Civil Rights
Movement Timeline: 1968
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The death of Dr. Martin Luther King, the rise of Black revolutionaries such as the
Black Panthers, together with the violence and
destruction of the race
riots, effectively ended the civil rights movement.
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Movement Timeline for kids
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the Civil Rights
Movement
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the Civil Rights
Movement
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