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Civil rights movement in USA 1950s-1960s
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Jim Crow Laws
1876 - 1965
Supreme Court declared compulsory segregation illegal
1954
Desegregation of buses in Montgomery, Alabama, began to take place
1955
Congress passed the Civil Right Act giving equal voting rights to black people
1957
Martin Luther King became the leader of the peaceful Civil Rights Movement
1957
White mobs tried to stop nine black children from enrolling at an all white school in Arkansas
1957
J. F. Kennedy elected president
1960
Martin Luther King campaignrd for federal supervision of election
1960
President Kennedy appointed the first black judge
1961
Martin Luther King gaoled for leading a protest march
1963
Murder of Kennedy in Dallas
1963
Lyndon Johnson elected president
1964
Malcom X gave a speech titled "The ballot or the bullet"
1964
Civil Rights Act gave black people equal rights of entry to the cinema and shops
1965
Murder of Malcom X
1965
Murder of Robert Kennedy
1965
Stokely arrested. Black Power speech
1966
Classius Clay "Muhammad Ali" refused to go to war
1967
Richard Nixon elected president
1968
Black militancy died down
Approx. 1969
Supreme Court ruled desegregation of school should begin immediately
1969
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