The document outlines key events and organizations in the American Civil Rights Movement from 1942 to 1968, including the founding of groups like CORE, SCLC, and SNCC; pivotal court cases like Brown v. Board of Education; protest events like the Montgomery Bus Boycott and March on Washington; and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, as well as the assassinations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

1. The Civil Rights
Movement

2. 1942: Congress of
Racial Equality
(CORE) founded

3. Linda Brown Thurgood Marshall
Brown v. Board of Ed., Topeka, KS, 1954

4. Montgomery, AL Bus Boycott, 1955-56
Rosa Parks Martin Luther King, Jr.

5. Little Rock Nine, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1956

6. 1957: Southern
Christian
Leadership
Conference (SCLC)
Founded

7. Ezell Blair, Jr.
Franklin McCain
Joseph McNeil
David Richmond
1960: Woolworth Dept.
Store lunch-counter sit-
ins in Greensboro, NC

8. 1960: Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC) founded

9. Freedom Riders, 1961

10. 1962: James Meredith admitted
to University of Mississippi

11. 1963: Vivian Malone admitted
to University of Alabama

12. Birmingham, AL
Demonstrations,
1963
•Letters from a
Birmingham Jail
•Children’s March
•“Bull” Conner

13. March on Washington,
1963

14. Civil Rights Act of 1964

15. Freedom Summer,
1964

16. March on Selma, AL,
1965

17. Voting Rights Act of 1965

18. 1965:
Malcolm X
Assassinated

19. 1965: Watts Riots in Los Angeles, CA

20. 1966: Huey Newton and
Bobby Seale founded
Black Panther Movement

21. 1967-8:
Widespread
race riots
throughout
USA

22. 1968: Stokely Carmichael
founds “Black Power”
Movement; Tommie Smith
and John Carlos give salute
at Mexico City Olympics

23. 1968: MLK
assassinated