Timeline of Civil Rights
TIMELINE OF CIVIL RIGHTS
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1954
Brown vs. Board of Education decision orders the desegregation of public schools.
1955
Montgomery bus boycott beginsv
1957
Southern Christian Leadership Conference is formed
School desegregation crisis occurs in Little Rock, Arkansas
1960
Students stage sit-ins across the South
1961
Attorney General Robert Kennedy steps up federal enforcement of civil rights laws
1963
Martin Luther King, Jr., delivers his ”I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington
Medgar Evers is assassinated
1964
Congress passes the Civil Rights Act
In Freedom Summer, volunteers enroll African Americans to vote
1965
Civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, begins
Rioting erupts in Watts district of Los Angeles
Congress passes the Voting Rights Act
Malcolm X is assassinated
1967
Race riots erupt in major U.S. cities
1968
Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated
1969
U.S. astronauts walk on the moon
