A Timeline of Major Events in the American Civil Rights Movement :: American Civil Rights Movement

Civil Rights Movement 1890-1900 1890 The allege of Mississippi adopts poll taxes and literacy tests to discourage black voters. 1895 Booker T. Washington delivers his battle of Atlanta Exposition speech, which accepts segregation of the races. 1896 The Supreme tribunal rules in Plessy v. Ferguson the separate scarcely equal treatment of the races is constitutional. 1900-1910 1900-1915 Over one thousand blacks are lynched in the states of the former Confederacy. 1905 The Niagara Movement is founded by W.E.B. du Bois and other black leaders to scabies more direct action to achieve black civilian rights. 1910-1920 1910 case Urban League is founded to help the conditions of urban African Americans. 1920-1930 1925 opaque jingoistic leader Marcus Garvey is convicted of mail fraud. 1928 For the first time in the 20th one C an African American is elected to Congress. 1930-1940 1931 Farrad Muhammad establishes in Detroit what will become the Black Muslim Movement. 1933 The NAACP fil es -and loses- its firs suit against segregation and discrimination in education. 1938 The Supreme Court orders the admission of a black applicant to the University of Missouri Law cultivate 1941 A. Philip Randoph threatens a massive march on Washington unless the Roosevelt administration takes measures to witness black employment in defense industries Roosevelt agrees to establish Fair purpose Practices Committee (FEPC). 1942 The congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is organized in Chicago. 1943 course riots in Detroit and Harlem cause black leaders to ask their followers to be less demanding in asserting their commitment to civil rights A. Philip Randolph breaks ranks to call for civil disobedience against Jim Crow initiates and railroads. 1946 The Supreme Court, in Morgan v. The Commonwealth of Virginia, rules that state laws requiring racial segregation on buses violates the Constitution when applied to interstate passengers. 1947 Jackie Robinson breaks the color inception i n major league baseball. 1947 To Secure These Rights, the report by the presidents Committee on Civil Rights, is released the commission, appointed by electric chair Harry S. Truman, recommends government action to secure civil rights for all Americans. 1948 chair Harry S. Truman issues an executive order desegregating the armed services. 1950-1960 1950 The NAACP decides to make its legal dodge a full-scale attack on educational segregation. 1954 First neat Citizens Council meeting is held in Mississippi. 1954 School year begins with the integration of 150 at once segregated school districts in eight states many other school districts remain segregated.