1. Civil Rights Review Civil Rights Act 1964
Banned discrimination in most employment and in public accommodations
Enlarged federal power to protect voting rights and speed up school desegregation

2. Civil Rights Crusade
1961 Freedom riders, blacks, whites sit, use station facilities together
Riders brutally beaten by Alabama mobs; one bus firebombed
Bus companies refuse to carry CORE freedom riders
Robert Kennedy pressures bus companies to continue carrying riders

3. Integrating University of Mississippi
James Meredith 1962 enrolls at University of Mississippi
Governor Ross Barnett refuse to let Meredith register
JFK orders federal marshals to escort Meredith to registrar's office
Federal officials escort him to class

4. Heading into Birmingham
April 1963 attempts desegregate Birmingham
King arrested, writes “Letters from Birmingham Jail”
TV news show police attacking child marchers, fires hoses, dogs, clubs
Protest, economic boycott, bad press ends segregation

5. Kennedy Takes a Stand
June, JFK sends troops to force Governor Wallace to desegregate University of Alabama
NAACP’s Medgar Evers murdered, hung juries lead to killer’s release

6. March on Washington
August 1963, over 250,000 people converge on Washington
Speakers demand immediate passage of Civil Rights Bill
King give “I Have A Dream” speech

7. More Violence
September, 4 Birmingham girls killed when bomb thrown into church
LBJ signed Civil Rights Act of 1964
Prohibits discrimination because of race, religion, gender

8. Fighting for Voting Rights
Freedom Summer, CORE, SNCC project to register blacks to vote in Mississippi
Volunteers beaten, killed; businesses, homes, churches burned

9. The Selma Campaign
1965, voting rights demonstrator killed in Selma, Alabama
King leads 600 protest marchers; TV. shows police violently stopping them
Second march, with federal protection, swells to 25,000 people

10. Voting Rights Act of 1965
Congress finally passes Voting Rights Act of 1965
Stops literacy tests, allows federal officials to enroll voters
Increases black voter enrollment

11. Civil Rights Act of 1968
Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of most housing
Strengthened antilynching laws

12. Montgomery Bus Boycott
1955 NAACP officer Rosa Parks arrested for not giving up seat on bus
Bus Boycott, leader Martin Luther King, Jr.
1956 Supreme Court outlawed bus segregation

13. Brown v Board of Education
1954 case which ended school segregation
Within 1 year, over 500 school districts desegregate
Eisenhower refuses to enforce compliances; considers it impossible

14. Movement Spreads
First sit-ins at Greensboro, N.C. Woolworth’s shown nationwide on TV
Late 1960, lunch counters desegregated in 48 cities in 11 states
SNCC adopts nonviolence, but calls for more confrontational strategy
In spite of abuse, arrests, movement grows, spreads North