Civil rights movement
1954–1968 U.S. nonviolent social movement
8 dated entries naming Civil rights movement, drawn from 6 separate years between 1961 CE and 2005 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.
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20th century
- 1961May 14 – Civil rights movement: A Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protestors are beaten by an angry mob of Ku Klux Klan members.source
- 1961May 21 – Civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order, after race riots break out.source
- 1961May 24 – Civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for "disturbing the peace", after disembarking from their bus.source
- 1963March 28 – Civil rights movement: Over one hundred high school students conduct a sit-in protest in Rome, Georgia.source
- 1965August 11 – Racial rioting in the Los Angeles, California neighborhood of Watts breaks out after an African American motorist, Marquette Frye, is stopped on suspicion of drunken driving. Six days of unrest are quelled by over 14,000 members of the California National Guard. There are 34 deaths and over $40 million in property damage. It is the largest and costliest urban rebellion of the Civil Rights movement.source
- 1966June 6 – Civil rights activist James Meredith is shot by a sniper while traversing Mississippi in the March Against Fear.source
- 1968February 8 – Civil rights movement in the United States: Orangeburg Massacre – A civil rights demonstration on a college campus to protest de facto racial segregation in South Carolina is broken up by highway patrolmen; three African American students are killed, the first instance of police killing student protestors at an American campus.source
21st century
Named in the same entries
- California (1)
- Los Angeles (1)
- South Carolina (1)
- Alabama (1)
- Ku Klux Klan (1)