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Chapter Timeline

CHAPTER REVIEW

TIMELINEAsk yourself why this chapter begins and ends with these dates and then identify the links among related events.
1941

  • A. Philip Randolph proposes march on Washington

  • Roosevelt issues Executive Order 8802
1942

  • Double V Campaign launched

  • Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded
1947

  • “To Secure These Rights” published

  • Jackie Robinson integrates major league baseball

  • Mendez v. Westminster School District
1948

  • States’ Rights Democratic Party (Dixiecrats) founded
1954

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
1955

  • Emmett Till murdered (August)

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott (December)
1956

  • Southern Manifesto issued against Brown ruling
1957

  • Integration of Little Rock High School

  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) founded
1960

  • Greensboro, North Carolina, sit-ins (February)

  • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) founded
1961

  • Freedom Rides (May)
1963

  • Demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama

  • March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
1964

  • Civil Rights Act passed by Congress

  • Freedom Summer
1965

  • Voting Rights Act passed by Congress

  • Malcolm X assassinated (February 21)

  • Riot in Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles (August)
1966

  • Black Panther Party founded
1967

  • Riots in Detroit and Newark
1968

  • Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated (April 4)
1969

  • Young Lords founded

  • Occupation of Alcatraz
1972

  • National Black Political Convention

  • “Trail of Broken Treaties” protest

Question

KEY TURNING POINTS: The history of the civil rights movement is more than a list of significant events. Pick two or three events from this timeline and explain how their timing and the broader historical context contributed to the precise role each played in the movement as a whole.