Key Dates Flashcards
Plessy v. Ferguson
1896.
To secure these rights
1947.
Desegregation of the army
1948, Executive order 9981.
NAACP founded
1909.
Smith v. Allwright
1944.
Morgan v. Virginia
1946.
Sweatt v. Painter
1950.
Brown v. The Board of Education I (Topeka)
1954.
Brown v. The Board of Education II
1955.
Emmitt Till Lynched
1955.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
1955-56.
Browder v. Gayle
1956.
The Little Rock Campaign
1957.
Greensboro Sit-ins
1960.
The Freedom Rides
1961.
The Albany Campaign
1961-62.
James Meredith and the University of Mississippi
1962.
The Birmingham Campaign
1963.
March on Washington
1963.
Mississippi Freedom Summer
1964.
Selma Campaign
1965.
Moynihan Report
1965.
Chicago Freedom Movement
1966.
The Poor Peoples Campaign
1968.
The Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike
1968.
King Assassination
1968.
J.F.K. Assassination
1963.
Lyndon Johnson Presidential Reign
1963-69.
John F. Kennedy Presidential Reign
1961-63.
Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Reign
1953-61.
Malcolm X Assassination
1965.
Watt Riots (Los Angeles)
1965.
Shooting of James Meredith
1966.
SNCC embrace violence
1968.
Black Panther Party Founded
1966.
Black Panther Party Disbanded
1977.
Vietnam War
1954.