TIMELINE
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Movement
Protests
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Legal
and Political
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Violence
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| 1954 | First White Citizens' Council meeting July 11, 1954, Mississippi | Brown I May 17, 1955 Brown II May 31, 1955 | |
| 1955 | Montgomery Bus Boycott starts December 5, 1955 | ICC bans segregation in interstate travel November 25, 1955 | Emmett Till killed August 1955 |
| 1956 | Tallahassee Bus Boycott starts May 27, 1956 | Autherine Lucy admitted to University of Alabama February 3, 1956 | Home of Martin Luther King, Jr., bombed January 30, 1956 |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott ends December 21, 1956 | Southern Manifesto presented March 12, 1956 | ||
| Alabama outlaws NAACP June 1, 1956 | |||
| Supreme Court rules on bus desegregation November 13, 1956 | |||
| Eisenhower reelected with Nixon | Shuttlesworth home bombed December 25, 1956 | ||
| 1957 | SCLC founded January 10-11, 1957 | ||
| Little Rock Central High School protest starts August 1957 | First Civil Rights bill since 1875 passed August 29, 1957 | ||
| 1958 | Tallahassee Bus Boycott ends March 1958 | Cooper v. Aaron September 29, 1958 | Martin Luther King, Jr., stabbed in Harlem September 20, 1958 |
| 1959 | Prince Edward County abandons its school system June 26, 1959 | ||
| Little Rock Central High School protest ends May 1959 | |||
| 1960 | Greensboro sit-in February 1,1960 | Civil Rights Act signed May 6, 1960 | |
| Sit-ins and boycotts all over the South and in some Northern cities | Kennedy elected with Johnson | ||
| SNCC founded April 17, 1960 | |||
| 1961 | Civil Rights organizations meet with Robert Kennedy, re: voting June 16, 1961 | Federal Court orders Hunter and Holmes to be admitted to University of Georgia January 6, 1961 Riot: January 11, 1961 | |
| Freedom Rides, Summer 1961 | ICC desegregation ruling September 22, 1961 | ||
| Albany Movement starts November 1961 | |||
| 1962 | JFK federalizes Mississippi troops at Ole Miss September 29, 1962 | Los Angeles Riot April 27, 1962 | |
| Ole Miss Riot October 2, 1962 | |||
| 1963 | Birmingham April-May 1963 | Centennial of Emancipation Proclamation January 1, 1963 | |
| Wallace schoolhouse stand June 11, 1963 | |||
| JFK meeting with civil rights leaders re: March on Washington. June 20, 1963 | Medgar Evers killed June 12, 1963 | ||
| March on Washington August 28, 1963 | |||
| Birmingham bombing September 15, 1963 | JFK killed November 22, 1963 | ||
| 1964 | Saint Augustine March June 1964 | 24th Amendment eliminates poll tax on federal elections January 23, 1964 | Riots: New York, New Jersey, Chicago, and Philadelphia |
| Founding of MFDP April 26, 1964 | Supreme Court ruling on Prince Edward County May 25, 1964 | ||
| Mississippi Freedom Summer and Atlantic City convention, August 1964 | Johnson signs Civil Rights Act, July 2, 1964 | Goodman, Schwerner, Chaney killed, June 1964 | |
| Martin Luther King, Jr., awarded Nobel Prize December 10, 1964 | Johnson elected with Humphrey | ||
| 1965 | King meets with LBJ February 9, 1965 | Malcolm X killed February 21, 1965 | |
| Selma-to-Montgomery march, March 21-25, 1965 | Reeb dies March 11, 1965 |