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1865:
13th Amendment outlaws slavery.
1870:
15th Amendment establishes the right of
black males to vote.
July 11-13, 1905:
The Niagara Movement is formed, a
forerunner to the NAACP.
1917:
Parade on 5th Avenue, New York City, by
10,000 blacks in a protest against
lynching and the East St. Louis riots.
1920:
19th Amendment gives women the right to
vote.
1943:
CORE stages its first sit-in at a Chicago
restaurant.
1948:
President Harry Truman ends segregation
in the U.S. military.
December
1, 1955:
Rosa Parks refuses to change seats on a
Montgomery, Alabama bus.
December
5, 1955:
Blacks begin a boycott of the bus system
in Montgomery.
December 13, 1956:
The U.S. Supreme Court outlaws bus
segregation.
December 21, 1956:
Montgomery bus boycott ends in victory.
1957:
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
(SCLC) is founded to coordinate
localized southern efforts to fight for
civil rights.
1959:
Blacks are elected to local offices in
North Carolina.
1960:
Lawsuit
Thomas L. Vickers, and Lattice Vickers
(Carborro) sued the Chapel Hill Board b/c
their son couldn't attend school nearest
his home due to segregation.
Just before the sit-ins a Dudley High
School teacher had urged students to
boycott downtown theatres.
The Greensboro Woolworths store ranked
64th in retail out of more than 2000
Woolworth stores.
April 15-17, 1960:
The Student Non-Violent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC) is formed in Raleigh by
a group of Shaw University students.
August
28, 1963:
The march on Washington is the largest
civil rights demonstrations to date.
Martin Luther King Jr. delivers a speech
entitled "I Have a Dream."
1964:
24th Amendment outlaws poll taxes for
national elections.
Martin Luther King Jr. wins the Nobel
Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway.
January 2, 1965:
The Southern Christian Leadership
Conference (SCLC) launches a voter drive
in Selma, Alabama, escalating into a
nationwide protest movement.
August 6, 1965:
The Voting Rights Bill becomes law,
nullifying local laws and practices that
prevent minorities from voting.
June 13, 1967:
Thurgood Marshall is appointed an
associate justice of the Supreme Court;
the first black so designated.
1968:
Civil Rights Act outlaws discrimination
in the sale or rental or housing.
April 4, 1968:
Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated.
October
29, 1969:
U.S. Supreme Court rules that school
districts must end racial segregation at
once.
February
1, 1980:
State historical marker unveiled at
corner of Elm & Friendly
August 10, 1989:
General Colin L. Powell is named chair of
the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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1868:
14th Amendment grants equal protection of
the laws to blacks.
1875:
Civil Rights Act grants equal access to
public accommodations.
1909:
National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People (NAACP) is formed.
1919:
Membership in the NAACP approaches
100,000, despite attempts in some states
to make it illegal.
1942:
The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is
founded in Chicago, a civil rights
group dedicated to a direct action of
non-violence.
1947:
In Winston-Salem, North Carolina, a black
is elected to the city council.
Mid 1950s:
Bennett College sociology professor
Edward Edmonds led delegations of parents
to the school board to protest inferior
educational facilities. He also demanded
the white-only swimming pool at Lindley
park be opened to blacks.
1954:
Bob Jones Sandwich Bar - 2 blocks away
from Woolworths (100 block of E.
Washington St.) was integrated.
May 17, 1954:
Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka,
Kansas.
1955:
MLK Jr.'s Montgomery bus boycott
1957:
President Dwight Eisenhower sends U.S.
Army troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to
enforce desegregation of schools.
August 29, 1957:
Congress passes the Voting Rights Bill of
1957, the first major civil rights
legislation in more than 75 years.
1959:
Ezell Blair Sr., father, was a shop
teacher at Dudley H.S. He "led a
drive to pressure merchants...to employ
minority sales personnel in
'non-traditional' jobs."
February 1, 1960:
Ezell Blair Jr. (Jibreel Khazan), David
Richmond, Joseph McNeil, and Franklin
McCain launch the Greensboro
sit-ins.
In
just two months the sit-in movement
spread to 54 cities in 9 states.
1961:
Integrated groups of protesters join
Freedom Rides on buses across the South
to protest segregation.
August
30, 1964:
Beginning in Harlem, serious racial
disturbances occur in more than six major
cities.
February
21, 1965:
Malcolm X is assassinated.
May
1-October 1, 1967:
In the worst summer for racial
disturbances in U.S. history, more than
40 riots and 100 other disturbances
occur.
May
6, 1969:
Howard Lee is elected mayor of Chapel
Hill, North Carolina, the first black to
hold the position in a predominantly
white city.
1971:
Full desegregation of public schools
February
1, 1980:
Reunion of the original four at
Woolworths. Served by Woolworth V.P.
Aubrey C. Lewis
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