Dates USA Flashcards
Brown vs Topeka
1954
Emmett Till murdered
1955
Rosa Parks
1955
Start of Montgomery buss boycott
1955
Supreme cout desegragates busses
1956
SCLC founded
1957
Little Rock
1957
Civil rights act
1957
First Greensboro sit-in
1960
Kennedy president
1961
Freedom rides test desegragation on busses
1961
James Meredith enroles at the university of Mississippi
1962
Campaign C launched in Birmingham, Alabama
1963
I have a dream speech
1963
Kennedy assassinated. Johnson president
1963
Freedom summer in mississippi
1964
Assassination of Malcom X
1965
Selma protest March
1965
Voting rights act
1965
James Meredith leads march against fear
1966
Black panthers set up
1966
Assassination of MLK
1968
Kerner report on riots
1968
Nixon president
1969
Noxon appeas for support from silent majority
1969
Nixon doctrine
1969
Kent state shootings in vietnam protest
1970
Luitenent Calleh guilty of murdering civilians in My Lai massacre
1971
Jim Crow laws upheld
1896
John Carlos and Tommie Smith give black panther salute
1968
Montgomery protest/boycott
1955