Civil Rights Movement Timeline
1890: The state of Mississippi adopts poll taxes and literacy tests to discourage black voters.1895: Booker T. Washington delivers his Atlanta Exposition speech, which accepts segregation of the races.1896: The Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson the separate but equal treatment of the races is constitutional.1900-1915: Over one thousand blacks are lynched in the states of the former Confederacy.1905: The Niagara Movement is founded by W.E.B. du Bois and other black leaders to urge more direct action to achieve black civil rights.1910: National Urban League is founded to help the conditions of urban African Americans.1925: Black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey is convicted of mail fraud.1928: For the first time in the 20th century an African American is elected to Congress.1931: Farrad Muhammad establishes in Detroit what will become the Black Muslim Movement.1933: The NAACP files -and loses- its firs suit against segregation and discrimination in education.1938: The Supreme Court orders the admission of a black applicant to the University of Missouri Law School
1954: First White Citizens Council meeting is held in Mississippi. 1950-19601950: The NAACP decides to make its legal strategy a full-scale attack on educational segregation. 1954: School year begins with the integration of 150 formerly segregated school districts in eight states; many other school districts remain segregated. delivers his first speech devoted entirely to the war in Vietnam, which he calls 'one of history's most cruel and senseless wars'; his position causes estrangement with President Johnson and is criticized by the NAACP. 1943: Race riots in Detroit and Harlem cause black leaders to ask their followers to be less demanding in asserting their commitment to civil rights; A. Truman, recommends government action to secure civil rights for all Americans. 1965: Malcolm X is assassinated while addressing a rally of his followers in New York City; three black men are ultimately convicted of the murder. Philip Randolph breaks ranks to call for civil disobedience against Jim Crow schools and railroads. 1960-19701960: Twenty-five hundred students and community members in Nashville, Tennessee, stage a march on city hall-the first major demonstration of the civil rights movement-following the bombing of the home of a black lawyer. 1963: Black students Vivian Malone and James Hood enter the University of Alabama despite a demonstration of resistance by Governor George Wallace; in a nationally televised speech President John F. 1947: To Secure These Rights, the report by the President's Committee on Civil Rights, is released; the commission, appointed by President Harry S. is assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee, precipitating riots in more than one hundred cities.
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