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Timeline of Civil Rights

TIMELINE OF CIVIL RIGHTS



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Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lincoln Memorial
1954

Brown vs. Board of Education decision orders the desegregation of public schools.

1955

Montgomery bus boycott beginsv 1957

Southern Christian Leadership Conference is formed School desegregation crisis occurs in Little Rock, Arkansas

1960

Students stage sit-ins across the South

1961

Attorney General Robert Kennedy steps up federal enforcement of civil rights laws

1963

Martin Luther King, Jr., delivers his ”I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington

Medgar Evers is assassinated

1964

Congress passes the Civil Rights Act

In Freedom Summer, volunteers enroll African Americans to vote

1965

Civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, begins

Rioting erupts in Watts district of Los Angeles

Congress passes the Voting Rights Act

Malcolm X is assassinated

1967

Race riots erupt in major U.S. cities

1968

Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated

1969

U.S. astronauts walk on the moon