Civil Rights Links for Ms. Wheeler
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1. 1954 Brown v. Board
2. 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott
3. 1955 Murder of Emmitt Till
4. 1957 "Little Rock Nine"
5. 1960 Sit-ins greensboro, NC
6. 1960 SNCC founded
7. 1960 US. V. Raines
8. 1961 Freedom Rides by CORE
9. 1961 Albany Movement Launched
10. 1962 James Meredith Integrates U of Miss
11. 1963Civil Rights leader Medgar Evers
12. A. Philip Randolph and MLK Jr. March on Washington
13. Church Bombing in Birmingham, AL
14. 1963 SCLC launches protest in Birmingham, AL
15. 1963 Governor Wallace stop integration at U of Alabama
16. 1964 Congress passes Civil Rights Act
17. 1964 Three Civil Rights Workers disappear in MS
18. 1964 Freedom Summer project launched in MS
19. 1964 24th Amendment passes outlawing poll taxes
20. 1965 Marchers attacked on Selma to Montgomery March
21. 1965 Malcolm X Assasinated
22. 1965 Louis Farrakhan takes leadership over the Nation of Islam
23. 1965 Voting Rights Act is passed
24. 1965 Riots take place in Watts
25. 1967 Thurgood Marshall named to the Supreme Court
26. 1967 Poor People's March on Washington planned by MLK JR
27. 1967 Kerner Commission launched to investigate racism
28. 1968 Angela Davis joins the Black Panther Party & the Communist Party
29. 1968 The Assasination of MLK JR in Memphis
Databases
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