Dates Flashcards
1870
Fifteenth Amendment
1868
Fourteenth Amendment
1890s
Southern States introduce Jim Crow laws
1896
Plessy v Ferguson
1944
Smith v Allwright
1945
African American improvement after WWII
1946
Morgan v Virginia
1947
- Journey of Reconciliation
- To Secure These Rights
- NAACP picketed department stores in New Orleans
- End of the CNO voter registration campaign in Arkansas
1948
- Executive order 9800 outlawed racial discrimination in the civil service
- Executive order 9981 ended segregation in the army
1949
Truman’s inauguration ceremony is desegregated
1950
- Sweatt v Painter
- Canteen at Washington Airport is desegregated
1951
- NAACP school boycotts
- Committee on Government Contract Compliance established
1953
- UDL bus boycott in Louisiana
- Earl Warren appointed to the Supreme Court
1954
Brown v Board of Education
1955
- Brown II
- Lynching of Emmett Till
- Beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
1956
- Browder v Gayle
- End of Montgomery Bus Boycott
1957
- SCLC created
- Civil Rights Act
- Little Rock Campaign
1958
Cooper v Aaron
1960
- Greensboro sit-ins
- SNCC founded
- MAPA founded
- Boynton v Virginia
1961
- Freedom Rides
- NIYC founded
- Albany campaign begins
1962
- NFWA founded
- MAPA president, Edward Roybal, elected to the House of Representatives
1963
- Birmingham Campaign
- March on Washington
1964
- Sioux occupation of Alcatraz
- Malcolm X leaves the Nation of Islam & forms the OAAU
- Mississippi Freedom Summer
- Civil Rights Act
1965
- Malcolm X assassinated
- Selma campaign
- President Johnson increases American involvement in Vietnam
- Publication of Moynihan Report
- Elementary & Secondary Education Act
- SDS organise anti-war marches in Washington D.C.
- Voting Rights Act
- Launch of ¡La Huelga!
- Higher Education Act
1966
- Freedom Cities Movement begins
- César Chávez’s Peregrinación (pilgrimage)
- March Against Fear
- Chicago Campaign
- NFWA merged with the Filipino Union to create the UFW
- Black Panthers founded
- The Diggers created an anarchist commune in San Francisco
- SNCC expelled white members
1967
Indian Resources Development Act
1968
- Memphis Sanitation Worker’s strike
- Chicano blowouts
- Martin Luther King assassinated
- Civil Rights Act
- Poor People’s Campaign
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v Daniel
- CORE expelled white members
- Table Grape Boycott launched
1969
Weeks v Southern Bell