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AA History Dates
The dates of key events in African American Civil Rights. A level OCR History.
Term | Definition |
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13th Amendment | 1865 |
Freedman's Bureau set up | 1865 |
KKK Founded | 1865 |
First Reconstruction Act | 1867 |
14th Amendment | 1868 |
15th Amendment | 1870 |
Second Enforcement Act | 1871 |
Third Enforcement Act | 1871 |
Civil Rights Act (Grant) | 1875 |
Hayes-Tilden Compromise | 1877 |
Tennessee Segregated Rail Introduced | 1881 |
United States v. Harris | 1883 |
Booker T Washington's 'Atlanta Compromise' speech | 1895 |
Plessy v. Ferguson | 1896 |
Williams v. Mississippi | 1898 |
William du Bois publishes 'The Souls of Black Folk' | 1903 |
NAACP set up | 1909 |
Marcus Garvey sets up UNIA | 1912 |
'The Birth of a nation' released | 1915 |
William du Bois organises protest march in New York | 1917 |
New Deal | 1933 |
Executive Order 8802 (Roosevelt) | 1941 |
CORE set up | 1942 |
Smith v. Allwright | 1944 |
CORE freedom rides (1) | 1947 |
Executive Order 9981 (Truman) | 1948 |
Brown v. Topeka Board of Education | 1954 |
Montgomery Bus Boycott starts | 1955 |
Murder of Emmet Till | 1955 |
MLK sets up SCLC | 1957 |
Little Rock | 1957 |
Civil Rights Act (Eisenhower) | 1957 |
Greensboro Four lunch counter sit in | 1960 |
Boynton v. Virginia | 1960 |
CORE freedom rides (2) | 1961 |
Murder of Medgar Evans | 1962 |
March on Birmingham | 1963 |
March on Washington | 1963 |
24th Amendment | 1964 |
Civil Rights Act (Johnson) | 1964 |
Heart of Atlanta v. United States | 1964 |
Assassination of Malcolm X | 1965 |
March on Selma | 1965 |
Voting Rights Act (Johnson) | 1965 |
Watts Race Riot, LA | 1965 |
Black Panther Party set up | 1966 |
MLK assassinated | 1968 |
Philadelphia Plan | 1969 |
Alexander v. Holmes | 1969 |
Swann v. Charlotte Mecklenberg Board of Education | 1971 |
Griggs v. Duke Power Company | 1971 |
Equal Opportunity Employment Act | 1972 |
Voting Rights Act (Reagan) | 1982 |
Civil Rights Act (Bush) | 1991 |
Rodney King Arrest | 1991 |
LA race riots | 1992 |