Civil Rights

• CORE set up


  1941
• Brown v Topeka case initially defeated


  1951
• Brown v Topeka Supreme Court ruling


  17 May 1954
• White Citizens Council


  1954
• Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat 


  1 December 1955
• Bus Boycott (MIA established)


  5 December 1955
• Murder of Emmett Till


  August 1955
• Supreme Court rules segregation on transport unconstitutional


  13 November 1956
• Little Rock


  September 1957
• Greensboro Sit-in


  February 1960
• Freedom Rides


  May 1961
• James Meredith and University of Mississippi


  1962
• March on Washington (I have a dream speech)


  28 August 1963
• Civil Rights Act


  July 1964
• Voting Rights Act


  August 1965
• Watts Riots


  August 1965
• Urban Riots


  1967
• Assassination of Martin Luther King


  April 1968
• Mexico Olympics (Black Power Protest)


  October 1968