Civil rights movement (1954–1968) |
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Notable events (timeline) | Prior to 1954 |
- Journey of Reconciliation
- Murder of Harry and Harriette Moore
- Sweatt v. Painter (1950)
- McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents (1950)
- Baton Rouge bus boycott
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1954–1959 |
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Bolling v. Sharpe
- Briggs v. Elliott
- Davis v. Prince Edward County
- Gebhart v. Belton
- Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company
- Emmett Till
- Montgomery bus boycott
- Tallahassee bus boycott
- Mansfield school desegregation
- 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom
- Royal Ice Cream sit-in
- Little Rock Nine
- Civil Rights Act of 1957
- Ministers' Manifesto
- Katz Drug Store sit-in
- Kissing Case
- Biloxi wade-ins
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1960–1963 |
- New Year's Day March
- Greensboro sit-ins
- Nashville sit-ins
- Atlanta sit-ins
- Sit-in movement
- Greenville Eight
- Civil Rights Act of 1960
- Ax Handle Saturday
- Gomillion v. Lightfoot
- Boynton v. Virginia
- University of Georgia desegregation riot
- Rock Hill sit-ins
- Robert F. Kennedy's Law Day Address
- Freedom Rides
- Anniston bombing
- Birmingham attack
- Garner v. Louisiana
- Albany Movement
- Cambridge movement
- University of Chicago sit-ins
- "Second Emancipation Proclamation"
- Meredith enrollment, Ole Miss riot
- Atlanta's Berlin Wall
- "Segregation now, segregation forever"
- Stand in the Schoolhouse Door
- 1963 Birmingham campaign
- Letter from Birmingham Jail
- Children's Crusade
- Birmingham riot
- 16th Street Baptist Church bombing
- John F. Kennedy's speech to the nation on Civil Rights
- Detroit Walk to Freedom
- March on Washington
- St. Augustine movement
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1964–1968 |
- Twenty-fourth Amendment
- Chester school protests
- Bloody Tuesday
- 1964 Monson Motor Lodge protests
- Freedom Summer
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States
- Katzenbach v. McClung
- 1964–1965 Scripto strike
- 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches
- Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections
- March Against Fear
- White House Conference on Civil Rights
- Chicago Freedom Movement/Chicago open housing movement
- Loving v. Virginia
- Memphis sanitation strike
- King assassination
- Civil Rights Act of 1968
- Poor People's Campaign
- Green v. County School Board of New Kent County
- Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co.
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Activist groups |
- Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights
- Atlanta Student Movement
- Black Panther Party
- Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
- Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
- Committee for Freedom Now
- Committee on Appeal for Human Rights
- An Appeal for Human Rights
- Council for United Civil Rights Leadership
- Council of Federated Organizations
- Dallas County Voters League
- Deacons for Defense and Justice
- Georgia Council on Human Relations
- Highlander Folk School
- Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
- Lowndes County Freedom Organization
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
- Montgomery Improvement Association
- NAACP
- Nashville Student Movement
- Nation of Islam
- Northern Student Movement
- National Council of Negro Women
- National Urban League
- Operation Breadbasket
- Regional Council of Negro Leadership
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
- Southern Regional Council
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
- The Freedom Singers
- United Auto Workers (UAW)
- Wednesdays in Mississippi
- Women's Political Council
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Activists | |
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Movement songs |
- "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round"
- "If You Miss Me at the Back of the Bus"
- "Kumbaya"
- "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize"
- "Oh, Freedom"
- "This Little Light of Mine"
- "We Shall Not Be Moved"
- "We Shall Overcome"
- ""Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind Stayed On Freedom)"
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Influences | |
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Related |
- Jim Crow laws
- Lynching in the United States
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- Buchanan v. Warley
- Hocutt v. Wilson
- Sweatt v. Painter
- Hernandez v. Texas
- Loving v. Virginia
- African-American women in the movement
- Fifth Circuit Four
- 16th Street Baptist Church
- Kelly Ingram Park
- A.G. Gaston Motel
- Brown Chapel
- Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
- Holt Street Baptist Church
- Edmund Pettus Bridge
- March on Washington Movement
- African-American churches attacked
- List of lynching victims in the United States
- Freedom songs
- Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam
- "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence"
- Watts riots
- Voter Education Project
- 1960s counterculture
- Eyes on the Prize
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Honoring | |
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Noted historians | |
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Civil rights movement portal |