The Civil Rights act of 1968 prohibited discrimination over the sale, rental and financing of houses based on race, religion, national origin and sex.
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Olympic sprinters, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, stood on the medal podium at the 1968 Summer Games. They bowed their heads and raised their fists when the national anthem played, in support of "Black Power".
The Memphis Sanitation Strike showed years of poor treatment, discrimination, and dangerous work conditions. Around 1300 black employees, working in sanitation, left their jobs to protest.
The Kerner Commission investigated the causes of the race riots. It is also known as the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
The Newark riots were a major disturbance that occurred in Newark, New Jersey. The rioting, looting, and destruction left 26 dead and hundreds injured.
President Lyndon B. Johnson issued the Executive Order 11246. It prohibited employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, and national origin.
The Watts Riot began, brought on by residents who were fed up after years of economic and political isolation. The rioters eventually spread over a 50s square mile area of South Central Los Angeles as they looted stores, torched buildings, and beat whites as snipers fired at police and firefighters.
State troopers in Alabama attack civil rights marchers (who were unarmed) after they passed the county line. In New York City, Malcolm X, is assassinated by rival Black Muslims.
It happens while addressing the Organization of African-American Unity. . The Voting Rights Act is signed into law on August 6, 1965. It aimed to overcome legal barriers that prevented African Americans from using their right to vote.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended segregation in public places and banned discrimination in employment by race, color, sex, or religion. The 24th Amendment abolished poll tax. Ratification of the 24th Amendment is completed on January 23, 1964.
Freedom Summer was a voter registration project in Mississippi that was part of a larger effort by civil rights groups to expand black voting in the South.
Three young civil rights workers, named James Chaney (21), Andrew Goodman (20), and Michael Schwerner (24), were murdered near Philadelphia, in Nashoba County, Mississippi. They had been working to register black voters in Mississippi during Freedom Summer and had gone to investigate the burning of the 16th street Baptist Church. .
A bomb exploded before the Sunday morning services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alambama. 4 young girls were killed and so many more were injured. The March on Washington was organized by civil rights and religious groups. It was designed to give attention to the political and social struggles African Americans continued to face.
Medgar Evers was a African American civil rights leader.
In Jackson, Mississippi, in the driveway outside his home, Medgar Evers was shot to death by Byron De La Beckwith, a white supermacist. The letter of Birminhham Jai's nonviolent campaignl began. It was followed by sit-ins and marches against racial segregation. A group of armed marshals escorted James Meredith to his dorm. Meredith will end up being the first African American student at the University of Mississippi.
Freedom Riders were a group of black and white civil rights activists. They protested segregation by riding through bus terminals while boycotting. The Southern Manifesto is signed. It is in opposition to racial integration influenced by the Brown vs. Board of Education case.
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