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Civil Rights Movement Timeline
Title: Civil Rights Movement Timeline
Category: History
Details: Words: 1151 | Pages: 4.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Civil Rights Movement Timeline
Civil Rights Movement:
1890-1900
1890: The state of Mississippi adopts poll taxes and literacy tests to discourage black voters.
1895: Booker T. Washington delivers his Atlanta Exposition speech, which accepts segregation of the races.
1896: The Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson the separate but equal treatment of the races is constitutional.
1900-1910
1900-1915: Over one thousand blacks are lynched in the states of the former Confederacy.
1905: The Niagara Movement is founded by W.E.B. du Bois and other …showed first 75 words of 1151 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1151 total…Ray in Memphis, Tennessee, precipitating riots in more than one hundred cities.
1968: Congress passes civil rights legislation prohibiting racial discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
1968: Ralph Abernathy, Martin Luther King Jr.’s successor as head of the SCLC, leads Poor People’s Campaign in Washington, D.C.
1969: The Supreme Court replaces its 1954 decision calling for “all deliberate speed” in school desegregation by unanimously ordering that all segregation in schools mush end “at once.”
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