American Civil Rights

Use the links below for research on your Civil Rights Timeline. You may also use : NC Wise Owl and Gale Student Resources

Some of the links below will take you to Primary and Secondary source documents. - enlarge the image when necessary in order to read the document.

1948: ( July 26) Executive Order 9981

1954: ( May 17) Brown v. Board of Education

1954: ( August ) Emmett Till

1954: (December 1) Rosa Parks

Montgomery Bus Boycotts

1957: ( September) Little Rock Nine

1960: ( February 1 ) Greensboro Sit in

1960-1966:  Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee - Shaw University

1961: ( May 4) Freedom Riders

1963: (April 16) Martin Luther King

Letters from the Birmingham jail

1963: (June 11) President Kennedy's speech explaining why he sent National Guard to University of Alabama

1963: (May) Sheriff Eugene "Bull" Connor

1963: ( August 28) March on Washington

Photo from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial

1963: ( September 15 ) Birmingham, Alabama Church Bombing

1964: ( January 23) The 24th Amendment

1964: (July 2) Civil Rights Act of 1964

1964: ( August 4 ) Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner murdered

1965: ( February 21 ) Malcolm X Assassinated

Malcolm X Biography

1965: (March 7 ) Selma to Montgomery March

1965: (August 10)  Voting Rights Act of 1965 - Photo

1965 ( August 11-17) Watts Race Riots

Day in History - Watts Race Riots

1966: James Meredith begins his journey on the "March Against Fear" on June 6, from Memphis, Tennessee, to encourage African American Mississippians to register to vote.

1966: (October) Black Panthers - Digital collection

Huey Newton Biography

1967: ( June 12) Loving v. Virginia

1967: (July) Detroit and Newark Race Riots

1967: Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African American Justice appointed to the Supreme Court on September 1.

1968: ( April 11) Civil Rights Act of 1968

1971: (April 20) Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education