Timeline- USA


 * 1863
 * Emancipation proclamation by Abraham Lincoln
 * Freeing the slaves
 * 1865
 * U.S. Civil War ends
 * 1866
 * The first Civil Rights Act is passed
 * 1881
 * First "Jim Crow" segregation law passed
 * 1865
 * Segregation is constitutional
 * "Separate but equal"
 * 1875
 * Civil Rights Act 2.0


 * 1909
 * Formation of NAACP


 * 1942
 * Formation of CORE
 * 1952
 * Malcolm X becomes a minister of Nation of Islam


 * 1954
 * Brown v. Topeka Board of Education
 * 1955
 * Montgomery Bus Boycott (Rosa Parks)


 * 1956
 * Montgomery Bus segregation declared illegal


 * 1957
 * Little Rock
 * Civil Rights Act 3.0
 * Eisenhower
 * Formation of SCLC


 * 1960 -
 * Sit-ins
 * Civil Rights Act 4.0
 * Eisenhower
 * Formation of SNCC
 * 1961
 * Freedom Rides begin their journey
 * 1962
 * James Meredith
 * First African American to enrol at the University of Mississippi


 * 1963
 * April
 * Protests in Birmingham begin
 * March
 * Project C begins
 * August
 * March on Washington
 * "I have a Dream" - speech (Martin Luther King)
 * 18th
 * James Meredith becomes the first African-American to graduate from the University of Mississippi
 * September
 * Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing
 * Killed four girls
 * Caused riots in Birmingham
 * Lead to the death of two more youths


 * 1964
 * Freedom Summer
 * MFDP was formed
 * The bodies of three civil-rights volunteers are found
 * Civil Rights Act 5.0
 * Lyndon Johnson


 * 1965
 * Selma to Montgomery march
 * Bloody Sunday
 * Watts Riots
 * Voting Rights act
 * Malcolm X is murdered
 * 1968
 * Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated
 * Civil Rights Act 6.0
 * 1991
 * Civil Rights Act 7.0
 * George W. Bush