Civil Rights Movement Timeline

This page includes significant milestones in the Civil Rights Movement. However, they do not have dates listed and they are out of order. Also, some of the events take place in the same year. We are going to use this information to create a timeline. (25pts)

Your job is as follows:

  1. Answer the following questions where applicable. (You may have to reach multiple sites to fully find all of the information).

a. When did this occur (Month, Year)?

b. Where did it happen (city, state)?

c. What leaders, people, and /or organizations were responsible for the event?

d. Describe the consequences of or reactions to this occurrence.

e. Was there violent resistance (describe)?

f. Did it provoke another event (describe)?

g. What significance did it have to the Civil Rights Movement as a whole?

2. Find a picture that describes the event and print it out (it does not have to be color).

3. On an 8x11 piece of white blank paper vertically oriented do the following:

a. First line will be the date

b. Second line will be the title(for example #1 could be simply The Assassination of Martin Luther King

c. Third section is the picture pasted on the paper

d. Fourth section is all of the information you found out (1 a-g) written or typed neatly.

e. Put your name and period on the back of the paper

Events:

  1. Martin Luther King is assassinated
  2. Integration of Central High School
  3. Malcolm X assassinated
  4. Bomb explodes at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
  5. Freedom Riders
  6. Civil Rights Act of ______
  7. Brown vs. Board of Education
  8. Loving vs. Virginia
  9. 1st Black woman to win Best Actress at the Oscars
  10. Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in
  11. Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
  12. Swann vs. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
  13. Executive order 11246
  14. Emmett Till
  15. James Meredith
  16. Freedom Summer
  17. Voting Rights Act of _____ (federal)
  18. March on Washington where Martin Luther King delivers his famous speech
  19. Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed in Birmingham, Alabama
  20. Three civil rights workers murdered
  21. Bloody Sunday
  22. First Black baseball player in Major League Baseball
  23. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People founded
  24. Integration of the U.S. armed forces
  25. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is established
  26. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is established
  27. Freedom Riders Attack in Birmingham and Anniston Alabama
  28. Vivian Malone & James Hood
  29. Martin Luther King receives Nobel Peace Prize
  30. 1st Black man wins Best Actor Oscar
  31. Watts Riots
  32. Black Panthers founded
  33. 1st Black man appointed to the Supreme Court
  34. 1st Black woman elected as a U.S. Representative