'I have a dream' 1954-68 Key dates

1909

NAACP established

1942

CORE established

1952

Malcolm X joins NOI

1953

Rosa Parks joins NAACP

1954

Brown V Board of Education

1955

Brown II

1955

Start of Vietnam War

1955-56

Montgomery Bus Boycott

1956

Browder V Gale

1956

KKK revitalised

1957

Little Rock desegregated, SCLC established, MLK’s first march on Washington

1957

5 black churches and houses of prominent black figures were bombed.

1960

SNCC established

1961-62

SCLC Albany, Georgia

1963

SCLC Birmingham, Alabama

1963

March on Washington

1964

Freedom Summer, Civil rights act, OAAU established

1965

Voting Rights act, Watts riot

1966

black panthers established, Meredith march, MLK’s Chicago campaign

1967

‘Beyond Vietnam’ speech

1968

MLK assassinated, Fair Housing act, Black panthers form an alliance