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

Civil Rights Movement 1890-1900 1890 The state of Mississippi adopts poll taxes and literacy tests to discourage forbidding voters. 1895 Booker T. Washington delivers his Atlanta Exposition speech, which accepts segregation of the races. 1896 The Supreme accost rules in Plessy v. Ferguson the separate but 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 urge more direct action to achieve black civil rights. 1910-1920 1910 National Urban League is founded to help the conditions of urban African Americans. 1920-1930 1925 black-market nationalist leader Marcus Garvey is convicted of mail fraud. 1928 For the first time in the 20th century an African American is elected to Congress. 1930-1940 1931 Farrad Muhammad establishes in Detroit what will become the dreary Muslim Movement. 1933 The NAACP files -and lo ses- 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 School 1941 A. Philip Randoph threatens a massive march on Washington unless the Roosevelt administration takes measures to ensure black employment in defense industries Roosevelt agrees to establish Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC). 1942 The sex act of Racial Equality (CORE) is organized in Chicago. 1943 Race riots in Detroit and Harlem cause black leaders to ask their followers to be less demanding in asseverate their commitment to civil rights A. Philip Randolph breaks ranks to call for civil disobedience against Jim Crow schools 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 employ to interstate passengers. 1947 Jackie Robinson breaks the color line in major league baseball. 1947 To Secure These Rights, the report by the Presidents Committee on Civil Rights, is released the commission, institute by President Harry S. Truman, recommends government action to secure civil rights for all Americans. 1948 President Harry S. Truman issues an executive order desegregating the armed services. 1950-1960 1950 The NAACP decides to make its well-grounded strategy a full-scale attack on educational segregation. 1954 First White Citizens Council meeting is held in Mississippi. 1954 School year begins with the integration of 150 once segregated school districts in eight states many other school districts remain segregated.