Timelines (Arcturus Publishing)

The first Civil Rights Act, April 19, 1866 -- Plessy v. Ferguson, May 6, 1896 -- The NAACP is formed, June 1, 1909 -- Segregation is over, May 17, 1954 -- Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott, December 1, 1955 -- Crisis at Little Rock, September 4, 1957 -- Peaceful sit-ins, February 1, 1960 -- The freedom rides, May 4, 1961 -- The Albany movement, November 17, 1961 -- The Birmingham campaign, May 3, 1963 -- The march on Washington, August 28, 1963 -- The freedom summer project, June 21, 1964 -- The Civil Rights Act, July 2, 1964 -- The death of Malcolm X, February 21, 1965 -- The march at Selma, March 7, 1965 -- The Voting Rights Act, August 6, 1965 -- Stokely Carmichael and Black power, June 7, 1966 -- The death of Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1968 -- Jesse Jackson, March 8, 1988 -- The Los Angeles race riots, April 29, 1992 -- The election of Barack Obama, January 20, 2009 -- Key figures of civil rights

Discusses significant events that shaped the American civil rights movement, from the Civil War to the presidential election of Barack Obama