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Timeline of Civil Society Protest:• 1865: 13th Amendment
• 1868: 14th Amendment
• 1870:15th Amendment
• 1909: NAACP founded
• 1925: Malcom X born
• 15 July 1929: Martin Luther King was born
• 1930: NOI formed and led by Elijah Muhammad
• 1939-1945: WW2
• 1940s: fight for Civil Rights starts
• 1942: CORE founded
• 1946: Truman set up Presidents’ Committee on Civil Rights
• 1947: Presidents’ Committee on Civil Rights made a proposal for extensive reforms
• 1952: Malcolm X released in jail, he rose to prominence in the NOI advocating black
separatism, nationalism and
• 1952: Stokely Carmichael born in Trinidad but moved to the USA
• 1953: Martin Luther King married Coretta Scott
• 1954: Martin Luther King became a pastor
• 1954: US Supreme Court ruling against segregating schools
• 1954: Black VS Broad
• 1955: Martin Luther King got his doctorate by Boston University
• 1 December 1955: Rosa Parks on bus
• 5 December 1955: when buses pulled up at the bus stops there were few riders. MIA hoped
that the bus companies would lose money and so to be forced to desegregate buses.
• 8 December 1955: King and MIA officials met with officials and lawyers from bus companies
and the city commissioner to present a moderate desegregation plan similar to the own
implemented in Baton Rouge and Southern States.
• 1955: Montgomery Bus Boycott
• January 30 1956: King’s home was bombed
• 1 February 1956: Nixon’s home was bombed
• 21 February 1956: 89 blacks were indicted under an old law prohibiting boycotts.
• 13 November 1956: US Supreme Court upheld the federal court’s ruling, declaring
segregation on buses unconstitutional- Boycott was over.
• 1957: Little Rock Nine
• 1957: SCLC founded
• 1958: King chose jail over a fine
• 1958: Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament(CND) formed in Britain
• 1959: Students for Democratic Society(SDS) formed
• 1959: Student Peace Union
• 1960s: Women’s movements emerged
• 1960: Stokely attended Howard University and soon became a member of SNCC
• 1960: SNCC founded
• 1960: Sit-ins
• May 1961: Freedom Rides
• 1962: Student Peace Union held a march in Washington
• 1963: Commission on the Status of Women
• 1963: Feminine Mystique
• 1963: Birmingham
• 1963: March on Washington
• June 1963: Congress passed the Equal pay Act
• 1964: awarded Noble Peace Prize
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