Timeline and Terms

Events

A Raisin in the Sun
Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education
Birmingham church bombing
Black student enrolled at University of Mississippi
Boynton v. Virginia
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board reaffirmed
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Dwight D. Eisenhower elected
Dwight D. Eisenhower re-elected
Earl Warren appointed chief justice
Emmett Till murdered
Federal troops sent to Little Rock
First black senator since Reconstruction
First Kwanzaa
First sit-ins
Freedom Summer
George Wallace’s Stand in the Schoolhouse Door
Jackie Robinson integrates Major League Baseball
John F. Kennedy assassinated
John F. Kennedy elected president
Kerner Commission Report
King won Nobel Peace Prize
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Lyndon Johnson elected president
Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society”
Malcolm X assassinated
Malcolm X named national minister of Nation of Islam
March on Washington
Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
Medgar Evers murdered
Military desegregated
Montgomery bus boycott
President’s Committee on Civil Rights
Robert Kennedy assassinated
Rosa Parks arrested
Selma freedom march
Shelly v. Kraemer
Southern Christian Leadership Conference founded
Southern Manifesto
Start of Freedom Rides
Thurgood Marshall appointed to Supreme Court
To Secure These Rights
Truman defeated Dewey
Twenty-fourth Amendment
Urban riots
Voting Rights Act
Watts race riot

People

A. Philip Randolph
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Earl Warren
Eleanor Roosevelt
Emmett Till
George Wallace
Harry S. Truman
J. Edgar Hoover
James Farmer
James Meredith
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King Jr.
Medgar Evers
Robert F. Kennedy
Rosa Parks
Strom Thurmond
Thurgood Marshall

Organizations

Black Panthers
Black Power Movement
Congress of Racial Equality
Dixiecrat Party
Freedom Riders
Little Rock Nine
NAACP
Nation of Islam
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Students for a Democratic Society