Civil rights dates

'To secure these rights'

Shelley v Kraemer

Henderson v US

McLaurin v Oklahoma

Sweatt v Painter

Korean War

CGCC established

Eisenhower elected president

Baton Rouge bus boycott

Brown v Board

Brown II 'all deliberate speed'

Emmet Till

White Citizens Councils formed

Third Klan forms

Southern Manifesto issued

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Autherine Lucy attends Uni of Alabama

First civil rights act

Little Rock

SCLC established

Cooper v Aaron

THTHP airs

Second Civil Rights Act

Greensboro Sit-ins

JFK wins presidential election

Boynton v Virginia

Freedom Rides

Albany Campaign

James Meredith and the Uni of Mississippi

JFK involved with Cuba and Berlin

Birmingham Campaign

March on Washington

LBJ becomes president

Third Civil Rights Act

Mississippi Freedom Summer

St Augustine Campaign

King wins Nobel Peace Prize

X leaves NOI and begins Hajj

Voting Rights Act

Selma Campaign

Selma to Montgomery March

X assassinated

Race riots in US cities

Great Society legislation begins

Vietnam War escalates

Meredith March

King's Chicago campaign

Black Panthers established

King's Poor People Campaign

Growth of other rights movements

Kerner Commission

Moynihan Report

King assassinated

Fair Housing Act

COINTEL PRO established