The Civil Rights Movement Revised Edition

1942

April CORE organizes.

1944

26 January Gunnar Myrdal publishes An American Dilemma.

16 February SRC organizes.

3 April Smithv. Allwrightinvalidates all-white primary elections.

25 April United Negro College Fund is established.

1946

25 January SCEF organizes.

3 June Morganv. Virginiabans segregated seating on interstate buses.

1947

9 April CORE’s Journey of Reconciliation challenges segregated bus seating.

10 April Jackie Robinson breaks baseball’s color barrier.

1948

3 May Shelleyv. Kraemerinvalidates restrictive housing covenants.

26 July President Harry Truman bars discrimination in federal employment and the

armed forces.

1950

15 January LCCR organizes.

5 June Sweattv. Painter, McLaurinv. Oklahoma, and Hendersonv. USprohibit

segregation in graduate education and in railroad dining cars that travel

across state lines.

1954

17 May Brownv. Board of Educationinvalidates Plessy’s ‘separate but equal’ decree.

11 July First Citizens’ Council organizes.

1955

31 May Brown IIorders school desegregation ‘with all deliberate speed.’

28 August Emmett Till is murdered.

25 November ICC outlaws segregation in interstate transport.

1 December Rosa Parks’s arrest sparks the Montgomery bus boycott.

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