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Timeline19541955

1957

1960

1962

Brown v. Board of EducationEmmett Till murdered while visiting

Mississippi.Montgomery Bus Boycott begins.Integration of schools in Little

Rock, Arkansas is blocked.Sit-ins begin at Woolworth’s in

Greensboro, North Carolina.James Meredith becomes first black

student to enroll in University of Mississippi. Kennedy sends 5,000 federal troops to quell resulting violence.

1963April

Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests. He writes his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.”

For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This "wait" has almost always meant "never." We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that justice too long delayed is justice denied.

1963

May

During protests in Birmingham, Eugene “Bull” Connor orders the use of police dogs and fire hoses.

1963

June

Medgar Evers, Mississippi’s NAACP field secretary, is murdered outside his home.

1963

August

Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech at The March on Washington.

1963

September

A bomb explodes at the16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The explosion kills four young girls. Riots erupt.

Michigan in the 1960s

American automobile industry was successful, and labor unions were strong.

Berry Gordy founded Motown in 1962.