Civil Rights TimeLine by 2026Leo Condon

1919.

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Chicago race riot of 1919. Sunday, July 27 1919. Racial tension leads to a fight on a beach. Eugene Williams, a black teenager, accidentally floats onto the white side of the beach, and rocks are thrown at him. One hits him and kills him. Leads to 8 bloody days of riots, which sparks more riots in other cities. This time called the Red Summer.

1921

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Tulsa Race Massacre. After rape accusations against a black man, violence breaks out in the Tulsa district of Chicago, Illinois. fighting eventually leads to the black neighborhood being burned, bombed and destroyed, and many of its inhabitants murdered. Massacre was covered up for many years.

1865

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American Civil war ends with the surrender of the Confederacy to the Union. 365,000+ Americans, 290,000+ Confederates and around 130,000+ noncombatants are killed. Union Victory leads to the abolition of slavery in the United States. After the war ends, the reconstruction era begins.

1955

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Emmett Till is murdered. While visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi, Till is murdered by 2 white men who were (supposedly) protecting their wives. shot, thrown in river, tortured. Mother had open casket funeral

1960

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4 Black college students in Greensboro, NC, start a sit-in at a whites-only lunch counter at the Woolworth store. each day the return with more students, after a month the sit-ins have spread to 55 cities in 13 states.

Sep 1957

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Integration is forced in high schools, but the first black kids, known as the Little Rock Nine, to begin integrating in Arkansa are blocked by the national guard on orders from the governor. Eventually President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends the 101st airborne to protect the Little Rock Nine as they go to school.

Dec 1955

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Rosa parks goes on trial for not moving her bus seat for a white person. on the 5th of December, 1955, the Bus Boycotts begin in Montgomery, Alabama. this eventually lead to bus segregation being deemed unconstitutional in Dec, 1965

1954

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Brown V. Board of Education, Oliver Brown, father of Linda Brown, sued the Topeka Kansas Board of Edu, arguing his daughter should be able to attend her local all white school. Chief Justice of supreme court, Earl Warren, delivered unanimous verdict of the court that schools should desegregate to comply with the 14th amendment.

1965

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March 7, 1965 a March is held from Selma to Montgomery Alabama to fight for equal voting rights for blacks. Governor Wallace tries to stop the marchers, leads to "Bloody Sunday", and eventually leads to the passing of the Voting Rights act that same year.

1969

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June 28, 1969 in Stonewall Inn, NY, after a raid on a Lgbt friendly bar by the Public Morla Squad turns violent, riots start. Riots for 4 more nights, spark that lead the Gay Rights Movement, and leads to the first pride parades.

1964

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The Civil Rights act is passed by LBJ, which ended legal discrimination and segregation in the United States.

1965

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Voting Rights act of 1965 is passed by LBJ, which protected the right to vote for blacks, and got rid of racists test that blacks had to take to vote. This act made it easier for black people to vote and change things about the government.

Dec 1957

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the SCLC (southern Christian leadership conference) is founded, which is a civil rights group that MLK was apart of, and which also took part in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Selma to Montgomery March.

Oct 1966

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The Black Panther Party is founder, which advocated for the armed defense of Black Americans and civil rights. Important members were Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.

1960

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SNCC (Student NonViolent Coordinating Committee) is founded after student lead sit-ins of segregated lunch counters occur in the south. Took part in protests and boycotts and advocated for civil rights, and was nonviolent.

Feb 1909

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the Civil Rights group NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) is founded to fight for the Civil rights of black people. The NAACP is still active today.

1896

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Plessy V. Ferguson, supreme court case ruling that segregation is legal in the United states as long as it's separate but equal. The court case came about after a black man who looked white was seated in the whites only section of a train.

April 1968

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April 4, 1968. MLK is assassinated outside of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee. His death has been linked to conspiracies that the CIA and FBI were involved in his death.

Feb 1965

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Malcolm X is assassinated in Manhattan, NY. X was shot 21 times.

Nov 1963

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November 22, 1963, JFK is assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald. His death made LBJ the president of the United States, and delayed that civil rights act that JFK had wanted to pass before his death.