History Civil rights - more exact dates

Brown v Topeka

1951-1955

Black Monday

17 May 1954

Emmett Till visit to Money

August 1955

Emmett Till’s body found

31 August 1955

Rosa Parks arrested

1 Dec 1955

Boycott started

5 Dec 1955

Browder v Gayle ruled

5 June 1956

End of Montgomery BB

20 Dec 1956

Revival of KKK

1955

first CRA filibustered by Dixiecrats

1956

first CRA signed + passed

9 Sept 1957

First day of Little Rock Nine

4 Sept 1957

Eisenhower tries to persuade Faubus to let Little Rock Nine in

12 Sept 1957

Police took control, first time Little Rock Nine got into skl

23 Sept 1957

Eisenhower sent in Federal troops to Little Rock

25 Sept 1957

start of first sit-in

1 Feb 1960

Freedom riders bus reaches Anniston

14 May 1961

James Meredith denied place in Mississipi U

May 1961

Supreme court order Missi U to take James

June 1962

Kennedy intervenes in the Meredith case + set officials

29 - 30 September 1962

James Meredith successfully registered to Missi U

1 October 1962

First Birmingham Peace March

3 April 1963

Children’s Birmingham Peace marches

2-3 May 1963

March on Washington

28 August 1963

Kennedy assassinated

Nov 1963

Mississippi Freedom Summer deaths

21 June 1964

MLK + SCLC first go campaign in Dallas County

Jan 1965

Blood-y Sunday

7 March 1965

LBJ signs 2nd CRA

2 July 1964

VRA bill

6 August 1965

Nation of Islam set up

1930

Malcolm X assassinated

21 Feb 1965

March against Fear + Meredith shot

June 1966

Olympics

1968

Black Panthers set up

October 1966

largest race riot

11-17 august 1965

race riots

1964-1968

Operation Breadbasket

1966

Poor People’s campaign

1967 - announced / 1968 - executed

MLK assassinated

4 april 1968

SDS set up

1960

Berkley FSM

1964

Kent State massacre

May 1970

Commission on Status of Women

December 1961

Equal Pay Act

1963

Contraceptive pill

1960

All married women were allowed birth control

1965

All women, no matter their marital status, were allowed birth control

1972

The Feminine Mystique published

1963

NOW established

June 1966

NOW helped win 30mill in back pay for women

1966-1971

Women’s strike of equality

August 1970

NOW disrupts Senate meeting for ERA

February 1970

Women’s Liberation Movement

late 60s

Miss America pageant disrupted, sheep crowned

1968

Women’s Lib groups started to discuss serious issues of rape or domestic violence

1974

Norma McCorvey (Jane Roe) takes Henry Wade to court

1970

Abortion is legal with limitations (Roe v. Wade)

Jan 1973

Educational Amendment Act

1972

Equal Credit Opportunity Act

1974

Nixon becomes president

Jan 1969

Pentagon Papers LEAKED

June 1971

Five men arrested for breaking into Watergate complex

17 June 1972

Nixon re-elected

1972

Trial of Watergate burglars began

8 Jan 1973

Watergate burglars due to be sentenced

23 March 1973

James McCord sent the judge a letter

19 March 1973

Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activites

7 Feb 1973

Edited scripts of some Watergate recordings released

October 1973

More Watergate scripts released, edited only where bad language was used

April 1974

Supreme Court orders Nixon to release all recordings

24 July 1974

Nixon resigns before he is impeached

9 August 1974