Dates Flashcards
When was Little Rock, Arkansas?
1957
When was the end of the Civil War?
April 1865
When was the 15th Amendment?
1870
When was Medgar Evers assassinated?
June 1963
When was Lincoln’s inauguration?
March 1861
When was the beginning of Civil War?
April 1861
When were the Sit-Ins?
1960 - 1963
When was Brown vs Board of Education in Topeka?
1954
When were the Voter Registration Rides?
1961
When was the 13th Amendment?
December 1865
When were the Freedom Rides?
1964
When was the Birmingham Campaign?
April 1963
When was the Voting Rights Act?
August 6 1965
When did the Black Power Movement radicalise?
1965 - 1968
When was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
1955 - 1956
When was the Emancipation Proclamation?
January 1863
When was the Children’s Crusade?
May 1963
When was the Gettysburg Address?
November 1863
When was the first Civil Rights Act?
1875
When was Plessy vs Ferguson?
1896
When was the second Civil Rights Act?
July 1964
When was the Mountaintop Speech?
April 3 1968
When was Malcolm X assassinated?
February 1965
When did Malcolm X come home from Mecca?
April 1964
When was the March on Selma?
March 1965
When was Kennedy assassinated?
November 1963
When was the March on Washington and the ‘I Have a Dream’ speech?
August 1963
When did the Black Power Movement start to develop?
Early 1960s
When did MLK attack poverty and fail in Chicago?
1966
When was MLK assassinated?
April 4 1968
When was Lincoln’s House Divided speech?
July 1858
When were people doubting Non-Violent Direct Action?
1965 - 1968
When do people believe the Civil Rights Movement ended?
1968
When were the Housing Riots?
April 1965
When were the Watts Riots?
August 11 1965
When was the Birmingham Church Bombing?
September 1963
When was the Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike?
April 3 1968
When was the 14th Amendment?
1868