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Here is a great Timeline Worksheet to use with your students so that they can have an idea of Periodization in terms of the Civil Rights. They will also be answering questions, which helps them understand the information of the Civil rights Movement
1948 President Truman issues an executive order outlawing segregation in the U.S. military.
1954 The Supreme Court declares school segregation unconstitutional in its ruling on Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
1955 Rosa Parks is jailed for refusing to move to the back of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus. A boycott follows, and the bus segregation ordinance is declared unconstitutional.
The Federal Interstate Commerce Commission bans segregation on interstate trains and buses.
1957 Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus uses the National Guard to block nine black students from attending Little Rock High School. Following a court order, President Eisenhower sends in federal troops to allow the black students to enter the school.
1960 Four black college students begin sit-ins at the lunch counter of a Greensboro, North Carolina, restaurant where black patrons are not served.
1961 Freedom Rides begin from Washington, D.C., into Southern states. Student volunteers are bused in to test new laws prohibiting segregation.
1962 President Kennedy sends federal troops to the University of Mississippi to end riots so that James Meredith, the school's first black student, can attend.
The Supreme Court rules that segregation is unconstitutional in all transportation facilities.
The Department of Defense orders complete integration of military reserve units, excluding the National Guard.
1963 Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is killed by a sniper's bullet.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech to hundreds of thousands at the March on Washington, D.C.
A church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, leaves four young black girls dead.
1964 Congress passes the Civil Rights Act, declaring discrimination based on race illegal.
The 24th Amendment abolishes the poll tax, which originally had been established in the South after Reconstruction to make it difficult for poor blacks to vote.
Three civil rights workers, two white and one black man, disappear in Mississippi. They were found buried six weeks later.
1965: A march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, is organized to demand protection for voting rights.
Malcolm X is assassinated. Malcolm X, a longtime minister of the Nation of Islam, had rejected Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s policies of non-violence. He preached black pride and economic self-reliance for blacks. He eventually became a Muslim and broke with Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad.
A new Voting Rights Act, which made it illegal to force would-be voters to pass literacy tests in order to vote, is signed.
1967 Thurgood Marshall becomes the first black to be named to the Supreme Court.
1968: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray pleaded guilty of the crime in March 1969 and was sentenced to 99 years in prison.
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
1954 The Supreme Court declares school segregation unconstitutional in its ruling on Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
1955 Rosa Parks is jailed for refusing to move to the back of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus. A boycott follows, and the bus segregation ordinance is declared unconstitutional.
The Federal Interstate Commerce Commission bans segregation on interstate trains and buses.
1957 Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus uses the National Guard to block nine black students from attending Little Rock High School. Following a court order, President Eisenhower sends in federal troops to allow the black students to enter the school.
1960 Four black college students begin sit-ins at the lunch counter of a Greensboro, North Carolina, restaurant where black patrons are not served.
1961 Freedom Rides begin from Washington, D.C., into Southern states. Student volunteers are bused in to test new laws prohibiting segregation.
1962 President Kennedy sends federal troops to the University of Mississippi to end riots so that James Meredith, the school's first black student, can attend.
The Supreme Court rules that segregation is unconstitutional in all transportation facilities.
The Department of Defense orders complete integration of military reserve units, excluding the National Guard.
1963 Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is killed by a sniper's bullet.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech to hundreds of thousands at the March on Washington, D.C.
A church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, leaves four young black girls dead.
1964 Congress passes the Civil Rights Act, declaring discrimination based on race illegal.
The 24th Amendment abolishes the poll tax, which originally had been established in the South after Reconstruction to make it difficult for poor blacks to vote.
Three civil rights workers, two white and one black man, disappear in Mississippi. They were found buried six weeks later.
1965: A march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, is organized to demand protection for voting rights.
Malcolm X is assassinated. Malcolm X, a longtime minister of the Nation of Islam, had rejected Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s policies of non-violence. He preached black pride and economic self-reliance for blacks. He eventually became a Muslim and broke with Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad.
A new Voting Rights Act, which made it illegal to force would-be voters to pass literacy tests in order to vote, is signed.
1967 Thurgood Marshall becomes the first black to be named to the Supreme Court.
1968: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray pleaded guilty of the crime in March 1969 and was sentenced to 99 years in prison.
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.