Civil Rights Movement Timeline

1896-Plessey vs Ferguson

1898-Williams vs Mississipi.

Grandfather clause introduced

1905-Migration to Harlem starts

1909-NAACP established

1933 March-Roosevelt becomes President.

1941-Fair Employment Practices Commission.

1947-The first Levittown is constructed.

1954-Brown vs Topeka.

1956-Montgomery Bus Boycott

1957-SCLC established.

1961-Freedom Rides

1963-March on Washington. Kennedy promotes the Civil Rights bill.

1964-Civil Rights Act

1965-Selma March. Voting Rights Act.

1966-Black Panthers established.

1968-King assassinated. Fair Housing Act.

1970s-Black migration back South.

1980s-School integration peaks.