Civil rights movement (1954-1968)

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Civil rights movement (1950s and 1960s)
Notable
events
(timeline)
Prior to 1954 Journey of Reconciliation • Murder of Harry and Harriette Moore • Sweatt v. Painter (1950) • McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents (1950) • Baton Rouge bus boycott 
1954-1959 Brown v. Board of Education • Bolling v. Sharpe • Briggs v. Elliott • Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County • Gebhart v. Belton • Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company • Emmett Till • Montgomery bus boycott • Browder v. Gayle • Tallahassee bus boycott • Mansfield school desegregation • 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom • "Give Us the Ballot" • Royal Ice Cream sit-in • Little Rock Nine • National Guard blockade • Civil Rights Act of 1957 • Katz Drug Store sit-in • Kissing Case • Biloxi wade-ins 
1960-1963 New Year's Day March • Greensboro sit-ins • Nashville sit-ins • Atlanta sit-ins • Sit-in movement • Greenville Eight • Civil Rights Act of 1960 • Ax Handle Saturday • Gomillion v. Lightfoot • Boynton v. Virginia • University of Georgia desegregation riot • Rock Hill sit-ins • Robert F. Kennedy's Law Day Address • Freedom Rides • Garner v. Louisiana • Albany Movement • Cambridge movement • University of Chicago sit-ins • "Second Emancipation Proclamation" • Meredith enrollment, Ole Miss riot • Atlanta's Berlin Wall • "Segregation now, segregation forever" • Stand in the Schoolhouse Door • 1963 Birmingham campaign • Letter from Birmingham Jail • Children's Crusade • Birmingham riot • 16th Street Baptist Church bombing • John F. Kennedy's speech to the nation on Civil Rights • Detroit Walk to Freedom • March on Washington • "I Have a Dream" • Big Six • St. Augustine movement 
1964-1968 Twenty-fourth Amendment • Chester school protests • Bloody Tuesday • 1964 Monson Motor Lodge protests • Freedom Summer • workers' murders • Civil Rights Act of 1964 • 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches • "How Long, Not Long" • Voting Rights Act of 1965 • Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections • March Against Fear • White House Conference on Civil Rights • Chicago Freedom Movement/Chicago open housing movement • Memphis sanitation strike • King assassination • funeral • riots • Civil Rights Act of 1968 • Poor People's Campaign • Green v. County School Board of New Kent County • Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. 
Activist
groups
Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights • Atlanta Student Movement • Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters • Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) • Committee for Freedom Now • Committee on Appeal for Human Rights • Council for United Civil Rights Leadership • Council of Federated Organizations • Dallas County Voters League • Deacons for Defense and Justice • Georgia Council on Human Relations • Highlander Folk School • Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights • Lowndes County Freedom Organization • Montgomery Improvement Association • Nashville Student Movement • NAACP • Youth Council • Northern Student Movement • National Council of Negro Women • National Urban League • Operation Breadbasket • Regional Council of Negro Leadership • Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) • Southern Regional Council • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) • The Freedom Singers • United Auto Workers (UAW) • Wednesdays in Mississippi • Women's Political Council 
Activists Ralph Abernathy • Victoria Gray Adams • Zev Aelony • Mathew Ahmann • Muhammad Ali • William G. Anderson • Gwendolyn Armstrong • Arnold Aronson • Ella Baker • Marion Barry • Daisy Bates • Harry Belafonte • James Bevel • Claude Black • Gloria Blackwell • Randolph Blackwell • Unita Blackwell • Ezell Blair Jr. • Joanne Bland • Julian Bond • Joseph E. Boone • William Holmes Borders • Amelia Boynton • Bruce Boynton • Raylawni Branch • Stanley Branche • Ruby Bridges • Aurelia Browder • H. Rap Brown • Guy Carawan • Stokely Carmichael • Johnnie Carr • James Chaney • J. L. Chestnut • Colia Lafayette Clark • Ramsey Clark • Septima Clark • Xernona Clayton • Eldridge Cleaver • Kathleen Cleaver • Charles E. Cobb Jr. • Annie Lee Cooper • Dorothy Cotton • Claudette Colvin • Vernon Dahmer • Jonathan Daniels • Joseph DeLaine • Dave Dennis • Annie Devine • Patricia Stephens Due • Joseph Ellwanger • Charles Evers • Medgar Evers • Myrlie Evers-Williams • Chuck Fager • James Farmer • Walter Fauntroy • James Forman • Marie Foster • Golden Frinks • Andrew Goodman • Robert Graetz • Fred Gray • Jack Greenberg • Dick Gregory • Lawrence Guyot • Prathia Hall • Fannie Lou Hamer • William E. Harbour • Vincent Harding • Dorothy Height • Lola Hendricks • Aaron Henry • Oliver Hill • Donald L. Hollowell • James Hood • Myles Horton • Zilphia Horton • T. R. M. Howard • Ruby Hurley • Jesse Jackson • Jimmie Lee Jackson • Richie Jean Jackson • T. J. Jemison • Esau Jenkins • Barbara Rose Johns • Vernon Johns • Frank Minis Johnson • Clarence Jones • J. Charles Jones • Matthew Jones • Vernon Jordan • Tom Kahn • Clyde Kennard • A. D. King • C.B. King • Coretta Scott King • Martin Luther King Jr. • Martin Luther King Sr. • Bernard Lafayette • James Lawson • Bernard Lee • Sanford R. Leigh • Jim Letherer • Stanley Levison • John Lewis • Viola Liuzzo • Z. Alexander Looby • Joseph Lowery • Clara Luper • Danny Lyon • Malcolm X • Mae Mallory • Vivian Malone • Bob Mants • Thurgood Marshall • Benjamin Mays • Franklin McCain • Charles McDew • Ralph McGill • Floyd McKissick • Joseph McNeil • James Meredith • William Ming • Jack Minnis • Amzie Moore • Cecil B. Moore • Douglas E. Moore • Harriette Moore • Harry T. Moore • William Lewis Moore • Irene Morgan • Bob Moses • William Moyer • Elijah Muhammad • Diane Nash • Charles Neblett • Edgar Nixon • Jack O'Dell • James Orange • Rosa Parks • James Peck • Charles Person • Homer Plessy • Adam Clayton Powell Jr. • Fay Bellamy Powell • Al Raby • Lincoln Ragsdale • A. Philip Randolph • George Raymond • George Raymond Jr. • Bernice Johnson Reagon • Cordell Reagon • James Reeb • Frederick D. Reese • Walter Reuther • Gloria Richardson • David Richmond • Bernice Robinson • Jo Ann Robinson • Angela Russell • Bayard Rustin • Bernie Sanders • Michael Schwerner • Cleveland Sellers • Charles Sherrod • Alexander D. Shimkin • Fred Shuttlesworth • Modjeska Monteith Simkins • Glenn E. Smiley • A. Maceo Smith • Kelly Miller Smith • Mary Louise Smith • Maxine Smith • Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson • Charles Kenzie Steele • Hank Thomas • Dorothy Tillman • A. P. Tureaud • Hartman Turnbow • Albert Turner • C. T. Vivian • Wyatt Tee Walker • Hollis Watkins • Walter Francis White • Roy Wilkins • Hosea Williams • Kale Williams • Robert F. Williams • Andrew Young • Whitney Young • Sammy Younge Jr. • James Zwerg 
Influences Nonviolence • Padayatra • Sermon on the Mount • Mahatma Gandhi • Ahimsa • Satyagraha • The Kingdom of God Is Within You • Frederick Douglass • W. E. B. Du Bois • Mary McLeod Bethune 
Related Jim Crow laws • Lynching in the United States • Plessy v. Ferguson • Separate but equal • Buchanan v. Warley • Hocutt v. Wilson • Sweatt v. Painter • Hernandez v. Texas • Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States • Katzenbach v. McClung • Loving v. Virginia • African-American women in the movement • Fifth Circuit Four • Brown Chapel • Dexter Avenue Baptist Church • Holt Street Baptist Church • Edmund Pettus Bridge • March on Washington Movement • African-American churches attacked • List of lynching victims in the United States • Freedom songs • "Kumbaya" • "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize" • "Oh, Freedom" • "This Little Light of Mine" • "We Shall Not Be Moved" • "We Shall Overcome" • Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam • "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" • Watts riots • Voter Education Project • 1960s counterculture • Eyes on the Prize 
Honoring In popular culture • Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial • other King memorials • Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument • Freedom Rides Museum • Freedom Riders National Monument • Civil Rights Memorial • St. Augustine Foot Soldiers Monument 
Noted
historians
Taylor Branch • Clayborne Carson • John Dittmer • Michael Eric Dyson • Chuck Fager • Adam Fairclough • David Garrow • David Halberstam • Vincent Harding • Steven F. Lawson • Doug McAdam • Diane McWhorter • Charles M. Payne • Timothy Tyson • Akinyele Umoja • Movement photographers 
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