Civil Rights - Dates of events

Question 1

NAACP established

Answer 1

1909

Question 2

First World War

Answer 2

1914-1918

Question 3

Race riots in 25 cities.

Answer 3

1919

Question 4

The Wall Street Crash & beginning of the depression

Answer 4

1929

Question 5

Nation of Islam established

Answer 5

1930

Question 6

Beginning of President F Roosevelt’s New Deal

Answer 6

1933

Question 7

America enters the Second World War

Answer 7

1941

Question 8

William L Dawson elected to US Congress
Roosevelt established the Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
Resistance to bus segregation in New Orleans

Answer 8

1943

Question 9

F D Roosevelt is re-elected President

Answer 9

1944

Question 10

The Allies win the Second World War
Adam Clayton Powell is elected to the US Congress
H Truman becomes President.

Answer 10

1945

Question 11

President’s Committee on Civil Rights established.

Answer 11

1946

Question 12

William Haist is appointed a federal judge
NAACP boycott of New Orleans department stores

Answer 12

1947

Question 13

Truman’s To Secure These Rights’ is published

Answer 13

1947