The Modern Civil Rights Movement

Events

• Executive Order 9981 (1948)
• Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) (Igor/Alex, 5)
• Montgomery Bus Boycott (Amanda/Amanda, 5)
• Southern Manifesto
• Little Rock Crisis (Ava/Gaby, 6)
• Sit-ins (Greensboro, Nashville)
• Freedom Rides (Katie/Valerie, 6)
• March on Washington (Morgan/Chris, 5)
• 16th Street Baptist Church bombing (Sarah/Kiley, 7)
• 24th Amendment (Trevor/Spencer, 5)
• Civil Rights Act(1964) (Alex/Jeff, 6)
• Mississippi Summer Freedom Project (1964)
• Selma to Montgomery March (1965)
• __3rd place (tie)__Voting Rights Act (1965) (Brent/Katie, 6)
• Watts Riots (1965)
• Long, Hot Summers
• __2nd place__ Affirmative Action (Christina/Liz, 7)
• Wounded Knee, South Dakota
• Busing

People

• __3rd place (tie)__Jackie Robinson (Tyler/Matthew, 5)
• Harry Truman (Nate/Joel, 5)
• Emmett Till (Brian/Miles, 7)
• Rosa Parks (Kara/Ryann, 7)
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Dan/Brandon, 7)
• Earl Warren
• Dwight Eisenhower
• Orval Faubus
• Diane Lane
• __3rd place (tie)__James Meredith(Lauren/Steffi, 5)
• Cesar Chavez (Allison/Ellen, 6)
• Malcolm X (Carly/Nicole, 5)
• Stokely Carmichael
• George Wallace
• Medgar Evers
• Lyndon Johnson (Kenzie/Lauren, 6)
• Jesse Jackson
• Thurgood Marshall (Lisa/Taylor/Emma, 6)
• Huey Newton
• Bobby Seale
• Allen Bakke

Organizations

• NAACP (Meredith/Kyle, 7)
• Fair Employment Practices Commission (1942)
• President's Committee on Civil Rights (1946)
• Southern Christian Leadership Conference (Karen/Cie, 7)
• United Farm Workers Organizing Committee
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) (Collin/Landon, 6)
• Congress of Racial Equality
• Black Panthers (Sam/Blake, 5)
• Kerner Commission
• La Raza Unida (Patrick/Krista, 6)
• __1st Place__ American Indian Movement (AIM) (Marshall/Mike, 6)

Links

• Civil Rights Movement Timeline
• We Shall Overcome
• Civil Rights Movement
• The King Center
• The Learning Page- From Slavery to Civil Rights: A Timeline of  African-American History
• Encyclopaedia of USA History: The Struggle for Civil Rights
• National Civil Rights Museum

Sources

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