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Civil Rights Timeline
Created by
Eleanor
⟶ Updated 15 Nov 2017 ⟶
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Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) established.
The Supreme Court declared segregation on buses that crossed state borders was illegal.
Discrimination in the armed forces was banned.
President Truman established a Committee on Civil Rights.
This was the first year since 1881 without a lynching.
The Supreme Court declared segregation in schools to be unconstitutional.The last all-black units in the armed forces were disbanded.
Montgomery Bus Boycott began after the arrest of Rosa Parks.
Dr Martin Luther King became President of the Southern ChristianLeadership Conference.
The Little Rock High School clash occurs and Eisenhower had to use Federal troops to enforce the law.
Civil Rights Act passed.
First student sit-ins against segregation at lunch counters occurs.
SNCC formed – Student Nonviolent Co-ordinating Committee.
SNCC formed – Student Nonviolent Co-ordinating Committee.
SNCC formed – Student Nonviolent Co-ordinating Committee.
James Meredith’s attempt to attend Mississippi University was only successful as a result of Federal troops being used.