Summary Civil Rights Movement timeline

Civil Rights Movement 1945-1973

1947: Jackie Robinson first black man to play in MLB

1948: Army desegregated

1948: Fair Employment Board set up

1952: Malcolm X joined Nation of Islam

1954: Social Security benefits extended

1954: Brown v Board of Education, Topeka

1955: Lynching of Emmett Till

1955-56: Montgomery Bus Boycott

1957: Little Rock Nine

1957: 1957 Civil Rights Act – aimed to ensure all African-Americans could exercise right to vote

1960: 1960 Civil Rights Act – made obstructing school desegregation a federal crime

1960: Sit ins

1961: Freedom rides

1962: James Meredith – first black student to enrol at University of Mississippi

1963: Civil Rights march and in Birmingham, Alabama

1963: March on Washington

1964: 1964 Civil Rights Act – made discrimination in public places, employment and federally
assisted programs illegal

1964: Freedom Summer campaign

1964: Malcolm X left Nation of Islam

1964-65: Race Riots

1965: Malcolm X assassinated

1965: Selma-Montgomery march

1965: Voting Rights Act

1966: Black Panthers founded

1967: Laws banning marriage between races removed

1968: Fair Housing Act

1968: 1968 Mexico Olympics – 200m medal ceremony

1968: MLK assassinated