1S : History of the Civil Rights Movement

UNIT 2 – THE COLOR LINE

Listening Comprehension 2

Key dates of the Civil Rights Movements in the USA.



Complete your timeline with the dates you hear!

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  ................. End of the American Civil War + End of slavery
  
  
  
  
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  ................. All eligible whit male citizens were able to vote but Blacks
  
  
  
  were discouraged from voting by acts of violence.
  
  
  
  
• 
  ................. Plessy vs Ferguson case = Racial segregation maintained in
  
  
  
  private businesses and schools. Jim Crow laws meant that Blacks were
  
  
  
  treated as second class citizens.
  
  
  
  
• 
  ................. National Association for the Advancement of Colored
  
  
  
  People ( NAACP) was created.
  
  
  
  
• 
  ............ - ............ Expansion of White supremacist group Ku Klux Klan
  
  
  
  
• 
  ............. Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka case ruled
  
  
  
  segregation in school illegal.
  
  
  
  
• 
  ............. First desegragated schools opened.
  
  
  
  
• 
  ............. Montgomery Bus Boycott in support of Rosa Parks.
  
  
  
  
• 
  ............. Little Rock Nine students allowed in a school of Arkansas.
  
  
  
  
• 
  ............. Universities began integrating too.
  
  
  
  
• 
  ............. President Kennedy proposed a Civil Rights bill to Congress.
  
  
  
  
• 
  ............. The law is approved.
  
  
  
  
• 
  ............. Martin Luther King led the March on Washington.
  
  
  
  
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  ............. Blacks start to vote + riots in Watts, Los Angeles.
  
  
  
  
• 
  ............. Malcolm X was assassinated.
  
  
  
  
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  ............. Martin Luther King + Robert Kennedy were assassinated.
  
  
  
  
• 
  ............. Barack Obama was elected.