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Civil Rights Movement Timeline — Infoplease.com

1954 - 1954. May 17: Thurgood Marshall The Supreme Court rules on the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans., unanimously agreeing that segregation ...
1960 - 1960. Feb. 1: (Greensboro, N.C.) Four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch ...
1964 - Byron De La Beckwith is tried twice in 1964, both trials resulting in hung juries. Thirty years later he is convicted for murdering Evers. Aug.
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The Civil Rights Movement 1955-1965: Introduction

1963 - ... protests and marches, ranging from the 1955-1956 Montgomery bus boycott to the student-led sit-ins of the 1960s to the huge March on Washington in 1963.
1964 - Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, guaranteeing basic civil rights for all Americans, regardless of race, ...
1965 - Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, guaranteeing basic civil rights for all Americans, regardless of race, ...
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CNN -The Civil Rights Movement

1954 - 1954 -- U.S. Supreme Court declares school segregation unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka ruling. Rosa Parks
1955 - 1955 -- Rosa Parks refuses to move to the back of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus as required by city ordinance; boycott follows and bus segregation ordinance is ...
1963 - 1963 -- Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is killed by a sniper's bullet. Race riots prompt modified martial law in Cambridge, Maryland.
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African American Odyssey: The Civil Rights Era (Part 1)

1954 - Success crowned these efforts: the Brown decision in 1954, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act in 1965 helped bring about the demise of the ...
1964 - Success crowned these efforts: the Brown decision in 1954, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act in 1965 helped bring about the demise of the ...
1965 - Success crowned these efforts: the Brown decision in 1954, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act in 1965 helped bring about the demise of the ...
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Civil Rights Movement in America - United States Civil Rights Movement

1963 - Robert Weaver's 'The Negro As an American', 1963. In 1966, Robert Weaver became the first African American Cabinet Secretary as the director of Housing and ...
1966 - In 1966, Robert Weaver became the first African American Cabinet Secretary as the director of Housing and Urban Development.
1968 - ... protest against segregation and racial discrimination. King was assassinated in 1968. Learn more about this enigmatic and amazing person through this biography.
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