Civil rights movement

1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01

Contemporaries

Related events (1 degree away • 2 degrees away)

1876
1883
1890
1897
1904
1911
1918
1925
1932
1939
1946
1953
1960
1967
 
Civil Rights Act of 1875
 
Civil rights movement
 
Montgomery bus boycott
 
Little Rock Nine
 
Sit-in movement
 
Albany Movement
 
Freedom Riders
 
Birmingham campaign
 
Stand in the Schoolhouse Door
 
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
 
Civil Rights Act of 1964
 
Harlem riot of 1964
 
Chicago Freedom Movement
 
Selma to Montgomery marches
 
Voting Rights Act of 1965
 
1967 Plainfield riots
 
1967 Detroit riot
 
Orangeburg massacre
 
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
 
Fair Housing Act
 
Poor People's Campaign

People

Martin Luther King Jr.
 
John F. Kennedy
 
Lyndon B. Johnson
 
Robert F. Kennedy
 
Muhammad Ali
 
Rosa Parks
 
Jo Ann Robinson
 
Malcolm X
 

Also participating

John Lewis
Dwight D. Eisenhower