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AA History Dates
The dates of key events in African American Civil Rights. A level OCR History.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |