Civil Rights Movement Dates
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- Beginning of sit-ins
- 1960
- Freedom riders integrate charter buses
- 1961
- integraton of Ole Miss
- 1962
- Civil Rights Act I
- 1964
- Freedom Summer
- 1964
- Voting Rights Act
- 1965
- Malcolm X assassinated
- 1965
- Black Panther Party formed
- 1965
- Brown VS Topeka Board of Education
- 1954
- Ammett Till hate crime
- 1955
- Montgomery Buss Boycott
- 1955
- Little Rock 9 Incident
- 1957
- Martin Luther King assassinated
- 1968
- Birmingham, Alabama bombed
- 1963
- March on Washington
- 1963
- Eisenhower reelected
- 1956
- John F. Kennedy elected
- 1960
- JFK assassinated
- 1963
- Lyndon B. Johnson elected
- 1964
- Civil Rights Act II
- 1968
- Race riots occur
- 1967
- Nixon elected
- 1968