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
