Paper 1 SA + USA
Atualizado 5 nov 2018
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Created byLisa Høeg Halvorsen
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Anti-pass demonstrations /
Cape Town march /
Government declares state of
emergencyFormation of the Union of South AfricaFormation of the African National Congress (ANC)Formation of the Congress Youth League (CYL)National Party wins electionProhibition of Mixed Marriages ActANC adopts CYL's Programme of actionImmorality ActMay Day StrikeSuppression of Communism ActPopulation Registration Act /
Group Areas ActBantu Authorities ActNative Laws Amendment ActAbolition of Passes ActUnderground South African
Communist Party is formedPublic Safety Act /
Criminal Law Amendment ActBantu Education ActSeparate Amenities Act /
Native Labour (Settlement of Disputes) ActNatives Resettlement ActCongress of the People
adopts Freedom CharterSeparate Representation of Voters ActWomen’s March to PretoriaFormation of the Pan
Africanist Congress (PAC)Promotion of Bantu Self-government Act /
Separate Universities ActFormation of Anti-Apartheid
Movement in BritainANC establishes
Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)PAC forms PoqoMK launches sabotage campaignNelson Mandela arrestedUN Resolution 1761 establishes Special
Committee Against ApartheidPolice raid MK
headquarters in RivoniaUN Security Council
Resolution recommends
arms embargoStart of Rivonia TrialRivonia Trialists sentenced
to life imprisonmentSharkeville massacreUN Security Council
Resolution 134ANC and PAC bannedAll-In Africa Conference in
PietermaritzburgSouth Africa = republicUS Civil War endsAfrican Americans given right to voteTennessee first state to pass
‘Jim Crow’ segregation lawsRacial 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 industryTruman orders desegregation
of the armed forcesDwight D. Eisenhower becomes president:
nominates Earl Warren as Chief Justice of US
Supreme CourtSupreme Court verdict on Brown v. Topeka
Board of Education →
segregation is unconstitutionalRosa 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 illegalMartin Luther King helps set up
the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference (SCLC)Eisenhower sends federal
troops to Little Rock, ArkansasNAACP leads campaign to integrate public
schools in Little Rock, ArkansasEisenhower Civil
Rights ActsSit-in movement begins
in Greensboro North CarolinaStudents at Shaw University
form Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC)John F. Kennedy
becomes presidentFreedom 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 travelSNCC and King organize
protests in Albany, GeorgiaCouncil for United Civil Rights
Leadership establishedMarch on Washington, Martin
Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’ speechKilling of four African-American
girls in a church in Birmingham, AlabamaAssassination of Kennedy in Dallas, TexasCivil Rights Act passed by
President Lyndon JohnsonMississippi Freedom Democratic
Party (MFDP) at Democratic ConventionMartin Luther King joins voter
registration campaign in Selma, AlabamaSelma-Montgomery March‘Bloody Sunday’ and follow-up marchesWatts Riots in Los AngelesVoting Rights Act passedPeríodos
Indian Passive Resistance CampaignBus boycott is organized
by NAACP activistsSNCC voter registration campaign in Mississippi‘Project C’ (Confrontation) in
Birmingham lead by SCLC, AlabamaFreedom Summer
campaign in MississippiDefiance Campaign
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