The Civil Rights Movement Revised Edition

1956

5 February Autherine Lucy becomes the first black to enter the University of Alabama.

12 March Southern Manifesto denounces Brown.

1 June ACMHR organizes.

1957

14 February SCLC organizes.

17 May Prayer Pilgrimage to Washington supports Brown.

9 September Civil Rights Act becomes law.

24 September President Dwight Eisenhower sends federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas,

to compel school desegregation.

1960

1 February Sit-in movement begins in Greensboro, North Carolina.

15 April SNCC organizes.

6 May Civil Rights Act becomes law.

11 November Gomillionv. Lightfootinvalidates Alabama’s gerrymandering law.

5 December Boyntonv. Virginiaoutlaws segregated facilities in interstate travel.

1961

6 March John Kennedy establishes the President’s Committee on Equal Employment

Opportunity and initiates the first federal requirement for affirmative action

in employment.

4 May Freedom Ride begins.

July SNCC establishes a voter education drive in Mississippi.

September VEP finances voter registration drives in southern states.

1 November ICC forbids segregated interstate bus terminals.

November– Albany Movement begins.

December

1962

February COFO coordinates voter registration drives in Mississippi.

April CCCO organizes.

Summer CORE’s Freedom Highways campaign targets segregated motels and

restaurants.

1 October James Meredith integrates the University of Mississippi.

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