Summer Reading 2007 - Civil Rights Timeline
Summer Reading 2007
Civil Rights Timeline
| National Civil Rights Timeline |
Durham, NC Civil Rights Timeline |
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| 1896 - 1899 | Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 Segregation laws upheld |
Duke acquires Blackwell Tobacco, 1898 NC Mutual Life Insurance, 1899 |
| 1909 |
NAACP | North Carolina College (historically black) [now NC Central University] |
| 1930s |
Mill workers and tobacco factory workers went on strike for union rights in North Carolina, 1934 | Louis Austin, Carolina Times Durham Committee on Negro Affairs 68% Negro voters registered |
| 1941 - 1945 |
WWII, Negro soldiers experience integration outside of South |
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| 1942 |
CORE | |
| 1943 - 1944 |
Howard U. students hold non-violent sit-ins at restaurants in Washington, DC |
City bus segregation leads to race riot & murder of Negro GI from Camp Butner |
| 1947 |
1st Freedom Rides CORE |
Floyd B. McKissick, Sr. participates |
| 1948 |
Truman desegregates Army |
Film: "Negro Durham Marches On" |
| 1953 | Rencher N. Harris, Durham City Council |
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| 1954 |
Brown v. Bd of Education |
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| 1955 | Emmitt Till murdered Rosa Parks, Montgomery bus boycott MLK & SCLC -- national prominence |
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| 1956 | MLK speaks at Hillside High School |
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| 1957 |
Non-violent direct action for civil rights: Little Rock High School | Royal Ice Cream Parlor sit-in |
| 1958 | Rencher N. Harris, Durham City Board of Education |
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| 1959 |
Ten Negro students reassigned to junior high schools & Durham High |
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| 1960 |
Student Sit-in Movement |
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| Feb 1 |
Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins |
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| Feb 8 |
Downtown Woolworth's & Kress |
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| Feb 16 |
MLK visits Durham Woolworth's Speech, White Rock Baptist Church |
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| April |
MLK visits SNCC, Shaw University, Raleigh |
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| 1961 - 1962 |
Carolina Theatre, Howard Johnson non-violent picket |
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| 1963 | Mass Demonstrations |
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| April |
Birmingham mass demonstrations Police dogs, fire hoses on children Medgar Evers, NAACP, murdered |
Malcolm X to debate Floyd McKissick Barred from speaking at city facilities Durham County Courthouse -- Jail |
| May 18-20 |
Mass demonstrations at downtown restaurants/hotels & Howard Johnson Mayor Grabarek negotiates City integrates theatres, pools, parks |
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| Aug 28 |
MLK March on Washington "I Have a Dream" Speech |
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| Sept |
Birmingham church bombing |
Federal court orders Durham City Schools to integrate - "Freedom of Choice" |
| Nov 22 |
John F. Kennedy assassinated | |
| 1964 |
Civil Rights Act Freedom Summer (MS) 3 murdered |
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| 1965 |
"Bloody Sunday" Selma to Montgomery March |
Durham County Schools integrate with "Freedom of Choice" plan |
| War on Poverty | Howard Fuller and Ben Ruffin Operation BreakThrough neighborhood Urban Renewal, Durham Freeway |
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| Feb 21 |
Malcolm X assassinated |
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| Aug |
Watts Riots |
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| Aug |
Voting Rights Act |
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| 1966 | Floyd B. McKissick, Sr. CORE, Ex Dir United Organization for Community Improvement voice to poor blacks |
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| 1967 | 1st black elected County Commissioner | |
| 1968 | ||
| Feb |
Orangeburg (SC) Massacre on black campus |
Sympathy demonstration, fire hoses; Fuller arrested--Atwater objects to arrest |
| Apr 4 |
Martin Luther King assassinated |
Police curfew, protests, Fuller dissuades march at night Arson, both races |
| Apr |
City Hall: Speakers; Mourners |
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| Jul |
City Hall: Black Solidarity Committee Selective Buying Boycott (8 months) |
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| Dec |
Black Christmas Parade |
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| 1969 |
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| Feb |
BSC Boycott ends $900,000 loss to white merchants Black Studies Week, 1st time at Duke Black students occupy Allen Bldg. Malcolm X Liberation University |
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| 1970 |
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| Spring |
US Supreme Court orders federal courts to desegregate southern schools |
Court ordered integration; close Negro schools Goal = 50%-50% racial mix |
| 1970 - 1971 |
First year of integrated schools Durham High & Hillside High = 50/50 |
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| 1971 May - Jun |
Ann Atwater, CP Ellis co-chairmen 1st integrated school year ends |
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| May |
Save Our Schools charrette |
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| 1989 |
1st black Mayor, Durham City School Merger Task Force Black Students: City 90%, County 30% |
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| 1992 |
Durham Public School system begins |
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