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20th century > USA > Civil rights movement

 

Timeline

in articles, pictures, podcasts and videos

 

 

warning: graphic violence

 

 

Civil rights > Main timeline

 

 

Civil rights > Black power > Timeline

 

 

Coretta Scott King    1927-2006

 

 

Rosa Parks    1913-2005

 

 

James Earl Ray    1928-1998

 

 

Alfred Daniel Williams King    1930-1969

 

 

Robert Francis Kennedy    1925 - June 6 1968

 

 

Poor people campaign - spring 1968

 

 

 Memphis sanitation strike

February 12, 1968 to April 16, 1968

 

 

MLK's funeral    April 9, 1968

 

 

Martin Luther King Jr.    1929 - 4 April 1968

 

 

MLK's “Beyond Vietnam” speech    1967

 

 

Race riots

in Detroit, Milwaukee,

Los Angeles and Chicago    1967-1968

 

 

Newark riots    1967

 

 

Miscegenation laws

landmark civil rights case >

Loving v. Virginia    1967

 

 

Watts riots, LA

15 March 1966 / 11-16 August 1965

 

 

Voting Rights Act    6 August 1965

 

 

7 March 1965 - Alabama

- "Bloody Sunday" march

and other marches

from Selma to Montgomery

 

 

Malcolm X 

1925 - 21 February 1965

 

 

MLK wins

the Nobel Prize for peace   October 14, 1964
 

 

 

Civil Rights Act   2 July 1964

 

 

June 21, 1964

Philadelphia, Mississippi

civil rights workers

James Chaney,

Andrew Goodman

and Michael Schwerner

are murdered

by KKK members

 

 

1963

Birmingham, Alabama

civil rights campaign

Mary Hamilton

16th Street Baptist church bombing

 

 

School desegregation   1950s-1960s

 

 

Martin Luther King Jr.

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

"I have a dream"    August 28,1963

 

 

Medgar Evers   1925 - 12 June 1963

 

 

Freedom riders   1961

 

 

MLK’s first imprisonment   1960

 

 

MLK is stabbed

by Izola Ware Curry   1958

 

 

Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom

Washington, DC   17 May 1957

 

 

Emmett Till   1941-1955

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

other civil rights activists,

educators, photojournalists, lawyers,

actors, comedians, singers, students

 

 

breaking the color barrier

in arts, media, science and sports - 20th century

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

segregationists    1940s-1970s

 

 

White supremacist violence > Ku Klux Klan

 

 

Ku Klux Klan > Edgar Ray Killen    1925-2017

 

 

Tulsa race massacre - 31 May, 1921

 

 

Chicago's race riots / red summer - 1919

 

 

 

 

 

NYC > Harlem > Timeline in pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Related > Anglonautes > History > 20th century > USA

 

Lyndon Baines Johnson    1908-1973

36th President of the United States    1963-1969

 

 

John Fitzgerald Kennedy    1917 - November 22,1963

35th President of the United States    1961-1963

 

 

20th century > 1962-1975

Cold War > Vietnam War > USA

 

 

Cold War / холодная война

 

 

WW2 > African-American soldiers

 

 

 

 

 

Related > Anglonautes > History > America, USA

 

17th, 18th, 19th, 20th century

English America, America, USA

Racism, Slavery,

Abolition, Civil war,

Abraham Lincoln,

Reconstruction

 

 

17th, 18th, 19th century

English America, America, USA

 

 

 

 

 

Related > Anglonautes > Vocapedia > USA

 

slavery, racism > lynchings - warning: graphic

 

 

race relations > African-Americans

 

 

slavery, eugenics,

race relations,

racial divide, racism,

segregation, civil rights,

apartheid

 

 

time > day > state holiday > Juneteenth

on 19 June 1865

enslaved African-Americans in Galveston, Texas,

were told they were free

 

 

boxing > Muhammad Ali   1942-2016

 

 

U.S. Constitution >

High Court / U.S. Supreme Court

Justices > Thurgood Marshall   1908-1993

 

 

politics / legislation > U.S. Congress >

Senate > Filibuster

 

 

violence, abuse, prostitution,

sexual violence, rape, harassment,

kidnapping, crime, police,

arrest, investigation, custody,

police misconduct / brutality / violence

 

 

police brutality

George Floyd - 1973 -25 May 2020

 

 

gun violence

Ahmaud Arbery shooting - 23 February 2020

 

 

police brutality

USA > Sandra Bland   1987-2015

 

 

police brutality

Freddie Carlos Gray, Jr.   1989-2015

 

 

police brutality

USA > Eric Garner   1970-2014

 

 

gun violence > police shootings > USA

 

 

UK, USA > unrest, riots

 

 

painting > street art > graffiti, murals

 

 

hate, hatred, bigotry

 

 

Beliefs, Emotions, Feelings, Mindset, Mood

 

 

 

 

 

Related > Anglonautes > Arts > Writers > USA

 

Toni Morrison    1931-2019

 

 

Nelle Harper Lee    1926-2016

 

 

Amiri Baraka    1934-2014

 

 

Ralph Waldo Ellison    1913-1994

 

 

James Arthur Baldwin    1924-1987

 

 

 

 

 

Related > Anglonautes > Arts > Music > USA > Foik / Rock

 

Joan Baez

 

 

Bob Dylan

 

 

Guy Hughes Carawan Jr.    1927-2015

 

 

Pete Seeger    1919-2014

 

 

Woody Guthrie    1912-1967

 

 

 

 

 

Related > Anglonautes > Arts > Music > USA

 

urban music, rap, hip-hop

 

 

soul

 

 

jazz

 

 

jazz > Nina Simone    1933-2003

 

 

blues

 

 

 

 

 

Related > Anglonautes > Arts > Movies

 

Sidney Poitier    1927-2022

 

 

 

 

 

Anglonautes > Arts > Photographers >

20th century > USA > Civil rights

 

Jeffrey Henson Scales

 

 

Doy Gorton

 

 

Danny Lyon

 

 

Doris Derby    1939-2022

 

 

Steve Schapiro    1934-2022

 

 

Fred Baldwin    1929-2021

 

 

Matt Herron    1931-2020

 

 

Don Hogan Charles    1938-2017

 

 

Robert Adelman    1930-2016

 

 

Ernest C. Withers    1922-2007

 

 

Leonard Freed    1929-2006

 

 

Gordon Parks    1912-2006

 

 

James "Spider" Martin    1939-2003

 

 

Grey Villet    1927-2000

 

 

Ed Clark    1911-2000

 

 

Ralph Waldo Ellison    1913-1994

 

 

Robert W. Kelley    1920-1991

 

 

Weegee    1899-1968

 

 

 

 

 

Related > Anglonautes > Videos > Documentaries > USA

 

2020s > African-Americans

 

 

2010s > African-Americans

 

 

2020s > Gun culture, gun violence, gun control

 

 

2010s > Gun culture, gun violence, gun control

 

 

 

 

 

Related

 

Unpublished Black History        USA

 

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/
national/unpublished-black-history

 

 

 

 

USA > Civil Rights Movement        UK

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/
civil-rights-movement 

 

 

 

 

USA > Unpublished Black History

 

Revealing moments in black history,

with unpublished photos

from The New York Times’s archives.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/national/
unpublished-black-history

 

 

 

 

Black History: Activism on Campus

 

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/02/07/
education/edlife/Black-HIstory-Activism-on-Campus-Timeline.html

 

 

 

 

New York Times > Disunion: The Civil War

 

Disunion revisits and reconsiders

America’s most perilous period

— using contemporary accounts, diaries, images

and historical assessments

to follow the Civil War as it unfolded.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/10/29/
opinion/20101029-civil-war.html

 

 

 

 

New York Times > Civil war timeline

 

This timeline tracks

the posts by contributors

to the Disunion series.

 

Contemporary accounts, diaries, images

and historical assessments

follow the Civil War as it unfolded.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/
opinion/disunion.html

 

 

 

 

Slavery and the Making of America > Timeline

 

https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/
slavery/timeline/index.html

 

 

 

 

Library of Congress

The African American Odyssey:

A Quest for Full Citizenship

 

https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/
aointro.html 

 

 

 

 

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