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Mar 14, 2011 6:21 AM - Fair Housing Act
1968Prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of dwellings based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status and handicap (disability).
- 1968 Summer Olympics
Jun 19682 black sprinters raised their fists to symbol black power. The world was in shock.
- Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr
Apr 4, 1968He was assassinated. Many people were outraged and upset
- Thurgood Marshall appointed Supreme Court Justice
1967Becomes first African American elevated to U.S. Supreme Court (1967-1991).
- Black panther part organized
1966The Black Panther Party was the manifestation of the vision of Huey P. Newton. A group that used intimidation to improve their well being as african americans.
- Voting rights act
1965Outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S.
- Assassination of Malcolm X
Feb 21, 1965He was another black civil rights activist. Was more prone to violence the MLK
- March on Selma
Feb 1, 1965The Southerners were opposed to Black voters. Civil rights activists try harder to get support.
- Civil rights act
1964Landmark piece of legislation in the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women, including racial segregation.
- Twenty fourth amendment
1964Conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.
- Freedom Summer
Jun 1964Civil Rights activists went to Mississippi to register black voters. Many were threatened
- March on Washington
Aug 28, 1963Black Civil rights activists marched into Washington. They were making an enourmous efforts for equality.
- Freedom Rides
May 4, 1961Civil rights activists that rode busses to test the legitimacy of Boynton v. Virginia. Some of them were arrested
- Boynton v. Virginia
Dec 5, 1960A black man was caught sitting in a white waiting terminal for a bus. The supreme court ruled this was unconstitutional.
- SNCC established
Apr 1960The student nonviolent coordinating comittee. Played a major role in sit-ins and freedom rides.
- SCLC established
1957The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is an American civil rights organization. The SCLC can be traced back to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
- Montogomery Bus Boycott
Dec 1, 1955Blacks refused to ride buses. They were tired of the segregated ways of the system. By not riding the bus they took money out of bus owners pockets.
- Murder of Emmit Till
Aug 8, 1955A 13 year old black boy was murdered for flirting with a white girl. He didnt think he was causing any harm but the girls father thought differently. He was aquitted from the charges.
- Little Rock Nine
1947A group of black students that were enrolled in a school in Arkansas. They had to be prtoected by the national guard
- CORE established
1942CORE was founded in Chicago in 1942. CORE is still stated to be open to "anyone who believes that 'all people are created equal.
- Nation of Islam created
1930The Nation of Islam is an African-American religious movement founded in Detroit, Michigan, by Wallace D. Fard Muhammad in July 1930. He set out to improve the spiritual, mental, social, and economic condition of the Black men and women of America.
- Creation of NAACP
Feb 1909The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.The NAACP was founded by a diverse group on February 12, 1909 by WEB Dubois (African American), Ida Wells-Barnett (African American), Henry Moscowitz (Jewish), Mary White Ovington (Caucasian), Oswald Garrison Villard (German-born Caucasian), and William English Walling (Caucasian, and son of a former slave owning family) to work on behalf of the rights of colored people including Native Americans, African Americans, as well as Jews.
- Plessy V. Ferguson
1896In plessy v. ferguson, the U.S. supreme Court decided that a Louisiana law mandating seperate but equal accomodations for blacks and whites on intrastate railroads was constitutional.
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