Civil Rights Timeline

1910 Founding of the = NAACP from the Niagra Movement
1914 Founding of the = Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) by Ma= rcus Garvey
1917-1933 Harlem Renaissance
1923 Rosewood lynchings and regulation. More information:Report on Rosewood

; and Special Master'= s Report; and reviews 1, and 2, and 3

1931- Scottsboro Boys case
1941 A. Philip Randolph's March on Washington Movement leads to Executive Order 8802 and the creat= ion of the Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC). =
1942 Congre= ss On Racial Equality founded; "Double V campaign ran by CORE, NAAC= P, and Black press in the North to create equal access for jobs and housi= ng; lynching of Cleo Wright
1942 Tuskeegee Airmen and Aircraft and Accomplishments
1942-5 92nd and 93rd Infantry Divisions activated; 92nd in Europe, 93rd in the Pacific. 92nd Division Personal Testim= ony. Other black units during WWII include the 761st Tank Battalion. More information 1 and = 2.
1944 Smith vs Allwright: outlawed the white primary.
1946-9 WWII veterans'assault on voter registration problems in Mississippi. Leads to investigation = by the Senate Ellender Committee. Mississippi defiantly declares that it will not register black voters, qualified or not. The TUSKE= EGEE EXPERIMENT starts.
1946 The Negro Leagues= , and Jackie Robinson, integrate baseball. More on the Negro Leagues: 1, and 2,and 3, and 4,a= nd5, and 6
1951 Desegregation of the U.S. Army in Korea; Rest = of Army desegregates by 1954.
1954 Linda Brown vs the Topeka, Kansas Board of Educa= tion
1954-5 The lynching of Emmett Till = ; In= teractive site
1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott; birth of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.And More (SCLC). Additional information on Montgomer= y Bus Boycott
1956-9 Southern States use false accusations of subversion to try to limit NAACP activities in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, et al.
1957 Integration of Little Rock, Arkansas' Central High School
1960 Sit ins across the South; Birth of the Stu= dent Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); Ruby Bridges integrates= the New Orleans School District
1961 CORE first, then SNCC organize the Freedom Rides =
1962 Ole Miss riots; Albany Movement
1963 Birmingham, Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Children's March, March on Washington, September; Bombing of Birmingham's Ebenezer Baptist Church (killing of= 4 little girls)
1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964, landmark Civil Rights legislation; SNCC/CORE's Freedom Summer voter registration drives in Mississippi and Louisiana; the murders of James Chaney, Michael S= chwerner, and Andrew Goodman (CORE workers)
1965 Bloody Sunday, Selma to Montgomery = March;and Cicero; and Watts riots et al.
1967 Birth of the Black Panther Party Rules and platform.
1968 Assasination of Ma= rtin Luther King, Jr. and resulting riots.
Mi= sc. information on Civil Rigths. The Sixties Proje= ct.
AFRO-American = Alamanac: timelines from African American Hi= story