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Recent Event Highlights: Asssination of Martin Luther King, Voting rights act , and 14 more...

Created by grantman on Apr 15, 2011

Last updated: 04/24/11 at 07:02 PM

• Dipity Timeline Created
  Apr 15, 2011 9:54 AM

• Fair Housing Act
  1968

  Is where it stops the discrimaination so people of any race can buy a home. Now any american can buy a home.

• Asssination of Martin Luther King
  1968

  MArtin Luther king Jr. was murdered on april 4 1968 outside a motel in Mephis Tennessee. This upsetted many people in America.

• 1968 Summer Olympics
  1968

  44 people were massacred over African AMercians joinging.

• Thurgood Marshall appointed Supreme Court Justice
  1967

  Was the first African American to serve in the Supreme Court. Also he was a jurist.

• Black Panther Party organized
  1966

  Black Panther Party was an African American revolutionary leftist. It was active from 1966 till 1982 in America.

• Voting rights act
  1965

  is a landmark piece of national legislation in the United States that outlawed discriminitory voting practices. The act prohibits any voting qualification and everyone is equal.

• Assisination Of Martin Luther King
  1965

  Malcolm x was murdered in New york city.

• March on Selma
  1965

  That marked the emotional and political peak of the American civil rights peak. They grew out of voting rights in Selma Alabama.

• 24th amendment
  1964

  prohibits both Congress and the States from conditioning the right to vote on payment of taxes.

• Civil Rights Act
  1964

  Was a piece of legislation that stoped descrimination of ethnic backround. It also ended unequal voting.

• Freedom Summer
  1964

  was an event that tried to get as many African Amercian voters as possible. Which at that time almost completely excluded black voters.

• SNCC Established
  1963

  Stubent Nonvialent Coordinating Commitee was also a major rrole in the Amercian civil rights act. SNCC had many supporters from the north.

• March on Washington
  1963

  was a march in Washington D.C. were over 250,000 people marched and is also were Martin Luther King gave his i have a dream speech.

• Freedom Rides
  1960

  Civil rights activists that rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test United States supreme court desicion boyton v virginia.

• Boyton v. Virginia
  1960

  Was a decision by the supreme court of the United States. It overturned a judgement convicting an African American for trespassing by being in a restuaurant in a bus terminal that was only for whites.

• SCLC
  1957

  Is an American civil rights organization. And has a huge role in the civil rights movement.

• Little Rock nine
  1957

  Blacks who were segregated in little Rock and whites boycotted. Security was very strong and death threats went to alot of the blacks.

• Murder of Emmit Till
  1955

  Emmit till was an African AMerican boy from chigaco illinois. He was muredered at the age of 14 for flirting with a white girl in Missippi.

• Montgomery Bus Boycott
  1955

  was a protest in montgomery Albama. Which eventually made Blacks sit werever they wanted on the bus.

• Brown vs. Board education
  1954

  Brown was wanting whites and blacks to go to the same school. Which made whites protest.

• Core Established
  1942

  The group that promoted non violence in effort to help stop segreagation. The group had influences from the book War Without Violence.

• Nation of Islam Created
  1930

  Was created Wallace D. Fard Muhammad. He set out to improve spiritual, mental, Social, and economic condition of the black men and women of America.

• Creation of NAACP
  1917

  was created in Charelston and then went around the world. W E Deboios helped out with it.

• Plessy v. Ferguson
  1896

  Is a landmark Supreme Court requiring States to have racial segregation.

• University of Missippi interegated
  1848

  is a coeducational research college located in oxford Mississippi. And is the third largest University in the state.