Today in Civil Rights History
Political Movements Topics: Abolitionism - Bolshevism - Communism - Feminism - Gay Rights - Marxism - Socialism - Trotskyism - Women's Suffrage
Related Topics: United States of America
Historical Events
Results 1 - 46 of 46
1866-03-27 - Pres Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amend
1866-04-09 - Civil Rights Bill passes over Pres Andrew Johnson's veto
1866-06-13 - House passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights for blacks)
1866-07-19 - Tennessee is 1st to ratify 14th Amendment, guaranteeing civil rights
1866-11-01 - 1st Civil Rights Bill passes
1872-05-22 - Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners (except for 500)
1875-03-01 - Congress passes Civil Rights Act; invalidated by Supreme Ct, 1883
1883-10-15 - Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional
1886-06-08 - 1st Civil Rights Act passes
1938-09-01 - Mussolini cancels civil rights of Italian Jews
1946-12-05 - Pres Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Exec Order #9808
1948-02-02 - President Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program
1950-01-15 - 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Wash DC
1957-05-17 - Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (DC)
1957-08-28 - Sen Thurmond begins 24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill
1957-08-29 - Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957
1957-08-29 - Strom Thurmond (Sen-D-SC) ends 24 hr filibuster against civil rights
1957-08-30 - US senator Strom Thurmond speaks 24hrs 27m against civil rights
1957-09-09 - Pres Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction
1960-02-01 - 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro NC Woolworth
1960-04-10 - Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill
1960-05-06 - Pres Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960
1960-11-10 - Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill
1964-02-08 - Rep Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act
1964-02-17 - US House of Reps accept Law on the civil rights
1964-06-10 - Southern filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked
1964-06-19 - Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes 73-27
1964-06-21 - 3 civil rights workers-Michael H Schwerner Andrew Goodman & James E Chaney-disappeared after release from a Mississippi jail
1964-06-29 - Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate
1964-07-02 - Pres Johnson signs Civil Rights Act & Voting Rights Act into law
1964-08-04 - Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman & James E Chaney, bodies discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam
1966-05-13 - Federal education funding is denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
1966-06-01 - 2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights
1967-10-20 - All white federal jury convicts 7 in murder of 3 civil rights workers in Meridan Mississippi
1968-04-11 - Pres Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act
1985-01-15 - Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president
1987-10-11 - 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington
1988-03-22 - Congress overrides Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill
1989-09-02 - Rev Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst
1990-01-12 - Civil Rights activist Rev Al Sharpton is stabbed in Bensonhurst Bkln
1992-08-05 - 4 cops in Rodney King beating case indicted on civil rights charge
1993-02-03 - Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in LA Calif
1993-04-17 - Police officers found guilty of violating Rodney Kings civil rights
2000-08-18 - A Federal jury finds the US EPA guilty of discrimination against Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later inspiring passage of the No FEAR Act.
2002-05-22 - American civil rights movement: a jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of four girls in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.
2005-01-06 - Mississippi Civil Rights Workers Murders: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect for the 1964 murders of three Civil Rights workers.
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 35 of 35
1622-01-01 - Isaac Sweers, Dutch Admiral/general/Civil rights activist
1862-07-16 - Ida Bell Wells-Barnett [Iola], US civil rights activist
1863-09-23 - Mary Church Terrell, civil rights activist
1868-02-23 - William E B Du Bois, Mass, civil rights writer (Souls of Black Folk)
1868-02-23 - W E B DuBois, famous African black civil rights activist and leader
1892-04-22 - Vernon Johns, American civil rights activist (d. 1965)
1898-05-03 - Septima Poinsette Clark, civil rights activist/educator
1898-07-27 - Audley Moore, civil rights activist, humanitarian [Queen Mother]
1901-08-30 - Roy Wilkins, civil rights director (NAACP)
1905-07-05 - Myles Horton, American educator and Civil Rights Movement teacher (d. 1990)
1907-05-01 - Oliver Hill, civil rights attorney (d. 2007)
1907-08-31 - Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician and civil rights lawmaker (d. 2007)
1910-03-04 - Tancredo Neves, president of Civil rights activist
1910-03-17 - Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader
1912-01-25 - Lucius E Burch Jr, US lawyer/civil rights leader
1913-02-04 - Rosa Lee Parks, civil rights activist (bus protestor)
1914-07-24 - Kenneth B Clark, Canal Zone, civil rights activist (Dark Ghetto)
1918-05-24 - Coleman A Young, civil rights leader (Mayor-D-Detroit)
1920-01-12 - James Farmer, Marshall, Tex, civil rights leader
1921-07-31 - Whitney M Young Jr, civil rights leader, head of Urban League
1922-09-11 - Charles Evers, civil rights leader (Amazing Grace)
1925-01-31 - Benjamin Hooks, civil rights leader
1925-11-21 - Johan "Poncke" Princen, KNIL-defector/civil rights in Djakarta
1926-03-11 - Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader (Southern Christian Leadership)
1926-04-10 - Johnnie Tillmon, civil rights activist (Natl Welfare Rights Assn)
1927-04-27 - Coretta Scott King, Marion Ala, civil rights leader
1929-03-12 - Lupe Anguiano, Mexican-American civil rights activist
1930-11-10 - Clarence M Pendleton Jr, chairman of US comm on Civil Rights (1981-88)
1933-06-25 - James Meredith, American civil rights activist
1935-08-15 - Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr, civil rights activist (National Urban League)
1938-02-17 - Mary Frances Berry, educator/head (US Commission on Civil Rights)
1940-01-14 - Julian Bond, Nashville Tenn, (D-Ga) civil rights leader
1943-05-10 - James Earl Chaney, US civil rights activist
1943-11-06 - Michael Schwerner, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964
1943-11-23 - Andrew Goodman, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 37 of 37
1817-09-09 - Paul Cuffe, civil rights activist (Sierre Leone), dies at 58
1874-03-11 - Charles Sumner, a white civil rights leader, dies at 63
1939-03-19 - Lloyd L. Gaines, American civil rights activist
1954-07-24 - Mary Church Terrell, educator/civil rights leader, dies at 90
1955-05-18 - Mary McLeod Bethune, educator & civil rights leader, dies at 79
1955-09-07 - Earnest Rabel, Austrian/US civil rights activist, dies at 81
1964-06-21 - Andrew Goodman, US civil rights activist, murdered at 20
1964-06-21 - James Chaney, US civil rights activist, murdered at 21
1964-06-21 - Michael Schwerner, US civil rights activist, murder at 21
1965-02-26 - Jimmie Lee Jackson, civil rights activist, dies of injuries
1965-03-11 - James Reeb, US vicar/civil rights activist, murdered
1965-03-25 - Viola Gregg Liuzzo, US civil rights activist, murdered
1970-07-02 - Jessie Street, Australian civil rights activist, dies
1976-05-01 - T.R.M. Howard, civil rights leader, entrepreneur, surgeon (b. 1908)
1977-03-14 - Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (b. 1917)
1979-05-16 - Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader & civil rights pioneer, dies at 90
1981-09-08 - Roy Wilkins, American civil rights activist (b. 1901)
1987-08-24 - Bayard Rustin, US civil rights activist, dies at 77
1988-06-05 - Clarence M Pendleton, chairman of comm on Civil Rights (1981-88) dies
1990-04-17 - Ralph David Abernathy, US civil rights leader, dies
1990-10-17 - Ralph Abernathy, civil rights activist, dies at 64
1991-01-21 - Richard Bolling, (Rep-D-Mo)/US civil-rights leader, dies at 74
1996-03-10 - Lucius E Burch Jr, US civil rights leader, dies at 84
1998-11-15 - Stokely Carmichael, American civil rights activist (b. 1941)
1998-12-14 - Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham, Jr., American civil rights activist and author (b. 1928)
2001-04-24 - Leon Sullivan, African-American civil rights leader and pastor (b. 1922)
2002-12-06 - Philip Berrigan, American civil rights activist (b. 1923)
2005-01-10 - James Forman, American civil rights leader (b. 1928)
2005-03-30 - Fred Korematsu, American civil rights activist (b. 1919)
2005-10-12 - C. Delores Tucker, American politician and civil rights activist (b. 1927)
2005-10-13 - Vivian Malone Jones, American civil rights activist (b. 1942)
2005-10-24 - Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (b. 1913)
2006-03-06 - Anne Braden, American civil rights activist (b. 1924)
2006-10-24 - Enolia McMillan, American civil rights activist (b. 1904)
2007-08-10 - Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, American member of Tuskegee Airmen and civil rights activist (b. 1925)
2007-11-10 - Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician and civil rights lawmaker (b. 1907)
2008-12-19 - James Bevel, 1960s Civil rights movement leader (b. 1936)
