The Civil Rights Movement Revised Edition

6 August Voting Rights Act becomes law.

11 August Race riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles.

1966

13 January Robert Weaver becomes the first black named to a cabinet post.

24 March Harperv. Virginia Board of Educationbars poll taxes in state elections.

6 June James Meredith is shot during his ‘March Against Fear.’

10 June Stokely Carmichael advocates ‘black power.’

10 July Chicago Freedom Movement begins.

1 October Black Panther Party for Self-Defense organizes.

8 November Edward Brooke of Massachusetts is elected the first black US senator since

Reconstruction.

1967

12 June Lovingv. Virginiainvalidates state laws against interracial marriage.

July Worst wave of urban rioting in US history.

1 September Thurgood Marshall becomes the first black US Supreme Court justice.

7 November Carl Stokes of Cleveland becomes the first elected black mayor of a major

city.

1968

8 February Orangeburg, South Carolina, massacre occurs, in which patrolmen kill

three and wound 27 students who protested against a segregated bowling

alley.

1 March Kerner Report appears.

28 March King leads a march for striking Memphis sanitation workers.

4 April King is assassinated.

11 April Fair Housing Act becomes law.

11 May Poor People’s Campaign gets under way in Washington, DC.

27 May Greenv. County School Boardinvalidates ‘freedom of choice’ plans.

1969

27 June President Richard Nixon requires federal agencies to establish equal

opportunity and affirmative action policies (Philadelphia Plan).

29 October Alexanderv. Holmesrequires Mississippi to desegregate its schools at once.

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