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Paper 1 SA + USA
Created by
Lisa Høeg Halvorsen
⟶ Updated 5 Nov 2018 ⟶
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Timelines by
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Leaders
Comments
Events
Anti-pass demonstrations / Cape Town march / Government declares state of emergency
Formation of the Union of South Africa
Formation of the African National Congress (ANC)
Formation of the Congress Youth League (CYL)
National Party wins election
Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act
ANC adopts CYL's Programme of action
Immorality Act
May Day Strike
Suppression of Communism Act
Population Registration Act / Group Areas Act
Bantu Authorities Act
Native Laws Amendment Act
Abolition of Passes Act
Underground South African Communist Party is formed
Public Safety Act / Criminal Law Amendment Act
Bantu Education Act
Separate Amenities Act / Native Labour (Settlement of Disputes) Act
Natives Resettlement Act
Congress of the People adopts Freedom Charter
Separate Representation of Voters Act
Women’s March to Pretoria
Formation of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC)
Promotion of Bantu Self-government Act / Separate Universities Act
Formation of Anti-Apartheid Movement in Britain
ANC establishes Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)
PAC forms Poqo
MK launches sabotage campaign
Nelson Mandela arrested
UN Resolution 1761 establishes Special Committee Against Apartheid
Police raid MK headquarters in Rivonia
UN Security Council Resolution recommends arms embargo
Start of Rivonia Trial
Rivonia Trialists sentenced to life imprisonment
Sharkeville massacre
UN Security Council Resolution 134
ANC and PAC banned
All-In Africa Conference in Pietermaritzburg
South Africa = republic
US Civil War ends
African Americans given right to vote
Tennessee first state to pass ‘Jim Crow’ segregation laws
Racial segregation constitutional with Plessy v. Ferguson verdict (‘separate but equal’)
the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People is founded (NAACP)
President Franklin Roosevelt bans segregation in defence industry
Truman orders desegregation of the armed forces
Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes president: nominates Earl Warren as Chief Justice of US Supreme Court
Supreme Court verdict on Brown v. Topeka Board of Education → segregation is unconstitutional
Rosa Parks (1913-2005) arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for not giving up her seat on a public bus for a white man.
Supreme Court declares Montgomery bus segregation illegal
Martin Luther King helps set up the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Eisenhower sends federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas
NAACP leads campaign to integrate public schools in Little Rock, Arkansas
Eisenhower Civil Rights Acts
Sit-in movement begins in Greensboro North Carolina
Students at Shaw University form Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
John F. Kennedy becomes president
Freedom Rides begin in the Deep South organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Attorney General Robert Kennedy enforces Supreme Court rulings on desegregated interstate travel
SNCC and King organize protests in Albany, Georgia
Council for United Civil Rights Leadership established
March on Washington, Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech
Killing of four African-American girls in a church in Birmingham, Alabama
Assassination of Kennedy in Dallas, Texas
Civil Rights Act passed by President Lyndon Johnson
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) at Democratic Convention
Martin Luther King joins voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama
Selma-Montgomery March
‘Bloody Sunday’ and follow-up marches
Watts Riots in Los Angeles
Voting Rights Act passed
Periods
Indian Passive Resistance Campaign
Bus boycott is organized by NAACP activists
SNCC voter registration campaign in Mississippi
‘Project C’ (Confrontation) in Birmingham lead by SCLC, Alabama
Freedom Summer campaign in Mississippi
Defiance Campaign
