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Civil rights movement

1954–1968 U.S. nonviolent social movement

10 dated entries naming Civil rights movement, drawn from 7 separate years between 1957 CE and 2005 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as American Civil Rights Movement, American civil rights movement, Civil Rights Movement in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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20th century

  • 1957September 4 – American Civil Rights Movement – Governor Orville Faubus of Arkansas calls out the National Guard of the United States to prevent the "Little Rock Nine" African American students from enrolling in Little Rock Central High School.source
  • 1961May 14 – Civil rights movement: A Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protestors are beaten by an angry mob of Ku Klux Klan members.source
  • 1961May 21 – Civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order, after race riots break out.source
  • 1961May 24 – Civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for "disturbing the peace", after disembarking from their bus.source
  • 1963March 28 – Civil rights movement: Over one hundred high school students conduct a sit-in protest in Rome, Georgia.source
  • 1963September 15 – American civil rights movement: The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, in Birmingham, Alabama, kills 4 and injures 22.source
  • 1965August 11 – Racial rioting in the Los Angeles, California neighborhood of Watts breaks out after an African American motorist, Marquette Frye, is stopped on suspicion of drunken driving. Six days of unrest are quelled by over 14,000 members of the California National Guard. There are 34 deaths and over $40 million in property damage. It is the largest and costliest urban rebellion of the Civil Rights movement.source
  • 1966June 6 – Civil rights activist James Meredith is shot by a sniper while traversing Mississippi in the March Against Fear.source
  • 1968February 8 – Civil rights movement in the United States: Orangeburg Massacre – A civil rights demonstration on a college campus to protest de facto racial segregation in South Carolina is broken up by highway patrolmen; three African American students are killed, the first instance of police killing student protestors at an American campus.source

21st century

  • 2005October 24 – Rosa Parks, 92, American civil rights pioneer, "founding symbol of the Civil Rights Movement".source

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