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This is a '''Timeline of the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham''', covering related events during the main thrust of the [[Civil Rights Movement]] from [[1954]] to [[1965]]:
This is a '''Timeline of the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham''', covering related events throughout the [[Birmingham District]] during the main thrust of the [[Civil Rights Movement]] from [[1952]] to [[1965]]:


==1954==
==[[1954]]==
* [[May 17]]: The United States Supreme Court issues its ruling in ''Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas''


==[[1955]]==
* [[June 29]]: The [[NAACP]] won a court order preventing the [[University of Alabama]] from barring the enrollment of [[Autherine Lucy]] and any other African-American applicants.
* [[October 10]]: The United States Supreme Court upheld the lower court's order in ''[[Lucy v. Adams]]''


==[[1956]]==
* [[February 3]]: [[Autherine Lucy]] successfully enrolled as a graduate library science student at the [[University of Alabama]]
* [[February 6]]: Lucy was suspended from classes due to the University's inability to provide a safe learning environment.
* [[March 12]]: 101 Southern congressmen entered the ''[[Southern Manifesto]]'' into the ''Congressional Record'', objecting to the implications of ''Brown v. Board of Education''.
* [[June 5]]: The [[Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights]] was created at a mass meeting at [[Sardis Baptist Church]].
* [[November 13]]: The United  States Supreme Court issued its ruling in ''Browder v. Gayle'', prohibiting segregation of Montgomery city busses.
* The FBI's [[COINTELPRO]] program began efforts to disrupt the Communist Party in the United States, eventually spreading to investigate and harass labor and civil rights organizations.
==[[1957]]==
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==[[1961]]==
* [[May 14]]: A [[Freedom Riders]]' bus pulled into the [[Birmingham Trailways Station]] and was met by a violent mob and no police protection.
* [[September 23]]: The Interstate Commerce Commission issued rules prohibiting segregation of interstate passengers, effective [[November 1]].
==[[1962]]==
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==[[1963]]==
* [[January 18]]: [[Governor of Alabama|Governor]] [[George Wallace]] made his first inauguration speech, calling for "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever".
* Spring: [[Birmingham Campaign]]
* [[April 16]]: [[Martin Luther King, Jr]] completed his "[[Letter from Birmingham Jail]]"
* [[May 2]]-[[May 4|4]]: [[Children's Crusade]]
* [[May 10]]: A truce was announced, ending the [[Birmingham Campaign]].
* [[June 11]]: Governor Wallace made his "[[Stand in the schoolhouse door]]" before [[Vivian Malone]] and [[James Hood]] successfully enrolled at the [[University of Alabama]].
* [[August 28]]: Martin Luther King, Jr delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
* [[September 15]]: [[16th Street Baptist Church]] was [[1963 church bombing|bombed]], killing four children.
==[[1964]]==
* [[July 2]]: President Johnson signed the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]].
* [[December 10]]: Martin Luther King was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.
==[[1965]]==
* [[March 7]]: The Selma to Montgomery March was stopped violently by police.
* [[August 6]]: President Johnson signed the [[Voting Rights Act of 1965]].


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Revision as of 22:53, 17 November 2009

This is a Timeline of the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham, covering related events throughout the Birmingham District during the main thrust of the Civil Rights Movement from 1952 to 1965:

1954

  • May 17: The United States Supreme Court issues its ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

1955

1956

1957

1958

1959

1960

1961

1962

1963

1964

1965

Civil Rights Movement (1956–1965)
Documents Segregation laws · ACMHR Declaration of Principles · Nonviolence pledge · Birmingham Manifesto · A Call For Unity · Appeal for Law and Order · Letter from Birmingham Jail · Birmingham Truce · Civil Rights Act of 1964
Events Freedom Rides · Who Speaks for Birmingham? · Selective Buying Campaign · Birmingham Campaign · Good Friday march · Children's Crusade · Police dogs and firehoses · List of racially-motivated bombings · 1963 church bombing · May 1963 riot
Organizations Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights · Birmingham City Commission · Ku Klux Klan · Miles College · NAACP · Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Activists Fred Shuttlesworth · Martin Luther King Jr · A. D. King · James Bevel · Frank Dukes · Edward Gardner · Lola Hendricks · Colonel Stone Johnson · Autherine Lucy · Vivian Malone · Joseph Lowery · James Orange · Nelson Smith Jr · John Porter · Abraham Woods Jr
Other figures Albert Boutwell · Robert Chambliss · Bull Connor · A. G. Gaston · Art Hanes · Lucius Pitts · Sidney Smyer · J. B. Stoner · "8 white clergymen" · Virgil Ware · "4 little girls"
Places Kelly Ingram Park · A. G. Gaston Motel · Movement churches
Legacy Birmingham Civil Rights Heritage Trail · Birmingham Civil Rights Institute · Birmingham Pledge
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