Civic Rights in USAFrise chronologique - Description de ma frise
1760
1860
1960
Plessy v. Ferguson legitimate the racist legislation by the separate but equal doctine
Creation of the Ku Klux Klan
Rosa Park is arrested
Creation of the NAACP
Declaration of Independance
Washington Walk
Marcus Gravey starts his Black nationalist movment
Creation of the NOI
Barack Obama is the first Black president in USA
Jackie Robinson is the first Black playing in Baseball Major League
The judgment of the Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Education declares unconstitutional racial segregation in public schools
Malcom X create Black nationalist movment
Decree of JFK to fight against racial discriminations at hiring
Creation of the SCLS
Murder of Malcom X
First sit-in in Greensboro
Olympic Games. Tommie Smith and John Carlos - black American athletes - raise their fist, covered with a black glove and black socks. "Black power."
Murder of Martin Luther King
The judgment of the Supreme Court Loving v. Virginia, declares unconstitutional the prohibition of mixed marriages
Carol Moseley Braun, the first African American elected senator from Illinois.
Secession War who marks the end of slavery
In Little Rock (Arkansas), violent crisis leading to the abolition of segregation in schools
Colin Powell, the first African American to become national security adviser.