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Civil Rights and the New Left
TIMELINE OF
CIVIL RIGHTS AND NEW LEFT
MOVEMENTS OF THE 1960’s

SS310-07Exploring the 1960s:
An Interdisciplinary Approach

November 30, 2009

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|1960 |[pic] |On February 1, 1960 four black students at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro, NC sat in |
| | |at a whites-only lunch counter in a Woolworth’s department store, asking to be served and refusing to give up their |
| | |seats until they were. (Sit-in Campaign)(Gosse, 2005) |
| |[pic] |April 17, 1960 Inspired by the Greensboro sit-in by four black college students at an all-white lunch counter, nearly |
| | |150 black students from nine states formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Meeting in Raleigh, |
| | |North Carolina, with Ella Baker, James Lawson and Martin Luther King, Jr., the founders set SNCC’s initial goals as |
| | |overturning segregation in the South and giving young blacks a stronger voice in the civil rights movement. (Gosse, |
| | |2005) |
|1961 | |In May 1961, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), an interracial pacifist group formed in 1942, organized Freedom |
| | |Rides by teams of black and white activist who rode buses into the


Cited: November 22, 1963 Sit-in Campaign February 1, 1960 Civil Rights Act of 1964 July 1, 1964 The Feminine Mystique published by Betty Friedan May 7, 1963 The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is founded. April 16-17, 1960 Assassination of April 4, 1968 Free Speech Movement May 7, 1961 Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy June 5, 1968 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing September 14, 1963 Voting Rights Act of 1965 May 7, 1965 President’s Commission on the Status of Women December 14, 1961 Freedom Summer Project June 1, 1964 Black Panthers were formed May 7, 1966 American Indian Movement May 7, 1968 SDS Produced Port Huron June 11, 1962 Civil Rights Act of 1968 April 11, 1968 Malcolm-X Assassinated February 20, 1965 Shirley Chisholm is the first black woman elected to congress June 5, 1968 Equal Pay Act June 10, 1963 1965 Teach-in Movement March 23, 1965 James Meredith October 20, 1962 National Organization for Women (Now) August 26, 1966 March on Washington for civil rights August 28, 1963 Malcolm-X leaves the Nation of Islam June 1, 1964
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