I Have A Dream Flashcards
I have a dream
1954-68
Brown v Topeka
17th May 1954
Plessy v Ferguson
1896
Browder v Gayle
1956
Boynton v Virginia
1960
Bailey v Patterson
1962
Freedom riders of CORE
1961
Montgomery bus boycott
1955-56
Segregated bus unconstitutional
June 1956
White resistance to bus integration
Jan 1957
SCLC
1957
Birmingham
1863
March on Washington
I have a dream
August 1963
MLK Nobel peace prize
1964
SNCC
1960
CORE
1942
Issue of legal segregation top of political agenda
1963
Civil rights act
1964
1968
Voting rights act
1965
Johnson presidency
1963-69
March Selma to Montgomery
March 1965
Number of marchers to Selma/Montgomery
25 000
Number of new black voters 1965
250 000
Fair housing amendments act
1968
Vietnam war
1965-73
MLK against Vietnam war
1967
Malcolm X
Nation of Islam
1952
Muslim Mosque Incorporated
March 1964
% of blacks living in poverty
1964-65
40%
Malcolm X assassination
Feb 1965
Black Panther Party est
1956
Black Panther more radical
1968
Black panthers targeted by FBI
1969-70
Failure in Chicago
1966
Poor people’s campaign
1967
MLK assassination
1968