2. Emmett Till Beaten to Death (1954)

3. Brown vs. Board of Education- desegregation of schools (1954)

4. Rosa Parks & Montgomery Bus Boycott (1956)

5. Browder v. Gale- Bus desegregation (1956)

6. Eisenhower(R) v. Adlai Stevenson(D) (1956)

7. SCLC forms Littlerock 9 starts H.S. Eisenhower send troops (1957)

8. Civil Rights Act (1957)

9. SNCC forms – Natl. college student protest group Lunch counter sit-ins in Greensboro, NC

10. John F. Kennedy (D) v. Richard Nixon (R) 1 st LIVE televised debates (1960)

11. Freedom Riders leave DC 5/4/1961

12. John F. Kennedy assassinated (1963)

13. MLK arrested in Birmingham (1963)

14. Medgar Evans murdered outside home (1963)

15. “I Have A Dream” speech at the Wash DC mall (1963)

16. 4 girls murdered in Birmingham church bombing (1963)

17. Lyndon B. Johnson (D) v. Barry Goldwater (R) (1964)

18. 24 th amendment – remove poll tax (1964)

19. ( 1964) Civil Rights Act - prohibits discrimination (race, religion, national origin, gender). May enter libraries, parks, etc.

20. Freedom Summer (voter registration in MS) (1964)

21. Malcolm X assassinated (1965)

22. March to Montgomery from Selma Voting Rights Campaign (1965)

23. ( 1965) Voting Right Act – prohibits any barriers that stop someone from voting

24. “Black power” used as a term Stokely Carmichel (1967)

25. (1967) Loving v. Virginia – any laws prohibiting interracial marriage unconstitutional

26. Major race riots in Detroit, Newark (1968)

27. Richard M. Nixon (R) v. Hubert Humphrey (D) (1968)

28. MLK assassinated by James Earl Ray Robert Kennedy assassinated (1968)

29. Civil Rights Act – prohibits discrimination in housing (1968)