US Civil Rights Movement
1954–1968 · Event
Mass nonviolent campaign for African-American rights from Brown v. Board (1954) through 1968; culminates in Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts.
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More from The Civil Rights Movement
- Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat (1955)
- Montgomery bus boycott (1955)
- Selma to Montgomery marches (1965)
- The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing (1963)
- Birmingham campaign (1963)
- King writes the Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963)
- Freedom Summer (1964)
- The murder of Medgar Evers (1963)
Around 1954
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Korean War (1950)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- The Beatles (1960)