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Events

The Events browse is an access feature for collections in CRDL. For a more complete civil rights timeline, visit the Teachers Domain.

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• 1954
  • Brown versus Board of Education
• 1955
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott
  • Emmett Till murder
• 1956
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott
• 1957
  • Civil Rights Act of 1957
  • Little Rock Central High School Integration
  • Highlander Folk School 25th Anniversary
  • Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, Washington, D.C.
• 1958
  • Temple Bombing (Atlanta, Ga.)
• 1960
  • New Orleans school integration
  • Sit-ins: Atlanta, Ga.
  • Sit-ins: Greensboro, N.C.
  • Sit-ins: Nashville, Tenn.
• 1961
  • Albany Movement
  • Georgia Tech Integration
  • Freedom Rides
  • University of Georgia Integration
• 1962
  • Albany Movement
  • NAACP convention in Atlanta
  • Augusta Movement
  • Ole Miss Integration
• 1963
  • Birmingham Bombing (Sixteenth Street Baptist Church)
  • John F. Kennedy's assassination
  • March on Washington
  • Sedition Trial, Americus, Ga.
  • University of Alabama Integration
  • Birmingham Demonstrations
  • Americus Movement
• 1964
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Nobel Prize
  • New York School Boycott
  • Freedom Summer
  • New York Race Riots
  • Heart of Atlanta/Pickrick trial
  • Americus Movement
• 1965
  • Selma-Montgomery March
  • Watts Riots
  • SCOPE project
  • Americus Movement
• 1968
  • Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike
  • Dr. King's Assassination
  • Poor People's Campaign