Timeline
Foundations
White supremacy and the founding of America
White supremacy and the founding of America
Overview
It was August 1619 when The White Lion docked near Point Comfort, a small port in the English colony of Virginia. Its cargo included more than 20 enslaved Africans.

Universal Negro Improvement Association

Frederick Douglass

W.E.B. Du Bois

The Tulsa race massacre

Music and resistance

Underground Railroad

The Moses of her people

Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Hellfighters

Nat Turner

NAACP

The realities of Jim Crow

The Klansmen

1945 to 1954
A new beginning
A new beginning
Overview
The experiences of fighting against Nazism and the labour requirements that drew hundreds of thousands of African Americans into work provided a catalyst for change in the years following World War Two.

PAUL ROBESON (1898 – 1976)

Jazz and Resistance

A. Phillip Randolph

Congress of Racial Equality

Ella Baker

1955 to 1959
Mobilizing against injustice
Mobilizing against injustice
Overview
The Supreme Court judgment had two immediate effects. It galvanised African American activism, leading to the launch of the Civil Rights Movement, but it also put Southern states on a collision course with the federal authorities.

Anatomy of a Campaign: The Montgomery Bus Boycott

Timeline of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

The Civil Rights Trail

Profile: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Women of the civil rights movement

Zora Neale Hurston

Little Rock Nine

The Crusade for Citizenship

BLACK WOMEN

James Baldwin: the voice of a generation

1960 to 1963
Integration and peaceful protest
Integration and peaceful protest
Overview
The success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott gave the fledgeling Civil Rights Movement impetus. However, resistance to the 1954 Supreme Court ruling in the Broad v. Brown case meant there was a lot more to do.

JOHN LEWIS' ACCOUNT OF THE FREEDOM RIDERS

The Freedom Riders

“I HAVE A DREAM”

Stokely Carmichael

Diane Nash

The Woolworth lunch protest

Colluding with the Klan

Nonviolence, MLK and Luton

THE FREEDOM SINGERS

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
1964 to 1965
Progress in legislation
Progress in legislation
Overview
The assassination of John F. Kennedy in November 1963 shocked and stunned the world. America was thrown into a period of uncertainty and self-reflection. It also had an unsettling effect on the Civil Rights Movement, which had been building up a head of steam towards real national reform.

Freedom Summer

The American Promise

John Lewis: A colossus of the civil rights era

The March: Selma to Montgomery

Medicine For The Soul: Soul Music and Civil Rights

Robert F. Kennedy: A Civil Rights Hero

1965 to 1968
Political inaction and reaction
Political inaction and reaction
1968 to 2007
The criminalisation of a community
The criminalisation of a community
Overview
1968 was a year of revolt. Students and workers occupied universities and factories in Paris. The people of Prague were rising up against their Soviet occupiers, and in North Africa citizens were taking to the streets demanding political reform.

Angela Davis

The Million Man March

Rodney King & 1992 LA Riots

The Long Southern Strategy

Ronald Reagan
