Civil Rights Movement Timeline

Name
Course
Professor
Date
Civil Rights Movement Timeline
Howard University
1866 – Howard University began as a school of Theology, it taught theological studies, mainly to the African American society.
1867 – The university was given a charter and became an independent university officially. It was per the United States Congress Act.
1872 – The first students graduated from the university after it was chattered this year.
1926 – Mordecai Wyatt Johnson became the first African American president to be in charge of the university. ( Logan, 1969)
Du Bois creates a new model
1895 – Du Bois gets a Ph.D. from the University of Harvard. He was the first African American to obtain the honors at that time.
1896 – This is the year where Du Bois accepted to work at the University of Pennsylvania
1897 – He started lecturing profession at Atlanta University. At this time he researched the social lives of the African American society.
1906- Niagara movement was introduced by Du Bois, which was used to foster for equality of human rights.
The Red Summer
April 14th, 1919 – At a local church in Millen Georgia, this is here six people met death who were two white officers, and four were blacks
May 12th, 1919 – Benny Richards a black is chased by a mob trying to catch him to punish him instead of the police doing so for being the cause of the death of his wife.
May 3rd, 1919 – there as a heightened rise in the mass murder of the African American citizens, this made the black leaders organize a conference on the matter.

( McWhriter, 2012)
May 10th 1919- due to the mass migration towards the north there was increased riot over housing.
Brown v. Board of Education
1952 – This moment is when the case between brown and the Board of Education was filed in the courts of law.
1954 – This was the year that the Supreme Court overruled the case stating that it would violate the amendment of equal protection.
1955 – The court ruled the enactment of the main Brown act to implement the decisions made.
1963- There were demonstrations in the city of Birmingham as well as Alabama
Murder of Emmett Till
August 19th, 1955 – his mother gave Emmett Till a ring. A day before he left for Mississippi
August 20th, 1995 – Emmett went to take a train to Mississippi.
August 21st, 1995 – Emmett arrives at Mississippi here he stays with his uncle Mr. Moses Wright.
August 24th, 1995 – Here the young fellow was dared to date Carolyn by his fellow age mates Bryan, the wife of the shop owner.
August 28th, 1995 – He was kidnapped by Roy Bryant from Moses’ home where he was murdered and his body maimed. (Tyson, 2017)
Ruby goes to school
1954 – Ruby was born on the farm where her parents used to work; this was in Mississippi.
1958 – The family of Ruby moves to New Orleans they hoped to find a better life in the city.
1960- She was tested to check whether she was capable of attending an all-white school. She and only six others passed the test. She, therefore, started school in the same year.
March on Washington
May 25th, 1941- The movement of March on Washington started.
July 4th, 1941 – Roosevelt creates a national Fair Employment Practices Committee
June 22nd, 1963 – this was the day that John Franklin Kennedy spoke to the leaders, in one of the meetings in the white house.
August 28th, 1963 – this as the day of the official March, whereby more than 200,000 both black and white took part
2838450571500023907756667500 Howard University 1867
28670259779000 1897 The Red Summer
2638425121920Du Bois creates a new model 1919

286702511747500 1954 Brown v. Board of Education
24479256794500Murder of Emmett Till1955

2867025142240 1960 Ruby goes to school

263842592710March on Washington 1963

Works Cited
Logan W. Rayford, Howard University: The First Hundred Years, 1867-1976, NYU Press, 1969
McWhirter Cameron Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America, St. Martins’ Press, 2012
Tyson B. Timothy The Blood of Emmett Till, Simon and Schuster, 2017