Timeline of the Black Power movement
This is a timeline of the Black Power movement.
Before 1966
[edit]- Congress of Racial Equality (1942)
- COINTELPRO (1956)
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (1960)
- Assassination of Patrice Lumumba (1961)
- 1961 United Nations floor protest
- The Negro Digest (1961)
- Liberator (1961)
- Group on Advanced Leadership (1961)
- Umbra (1963)
- Revolutionary Action Movement (1962)
- Umbra (1963)
- Soulbook (1964)
- Black Arts Movement (1965)
- Watts riots (1965)
- Assassination of Malcolm X (1965)
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965)
- Black Dialogue (1965)
- US Organization (1965)
1966
[edit]1967
[edit]- Operation CHAOS
- Long hot summer of 1967
- Detroit riot of 1967
- Cambridge riot of 1967
- Cairo riot
- Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
1968
[edit]- Memphis sanitation strike
- 1968 Olympics Black Power salute
- Republic of New Afrika
- Death of Bobby Hutton
- Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968
- Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement
- Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Howard University student protest
- King assassination riots
- Nommo
1969
[edit]- Murder of Fred Hampton
- Murder of Mark Clark
- League of Revolutionary Black Workers
- Institute of the Black World
- Sullivan v. Little Hunting Park, Inc.
- Weather Underground
- Gaston County v. United States
- Executive Order 11478
- Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education
- 1969 York race riot
- Allen v. State Board of Election
- Revised Philadelphia Plan
- Wells v. Rockefeller
- National Conference of Black Political Scientists
- Soul City, North Carolina
1970
[edit]- Joint Center for Political Studies
- Black Liberation Army
- Black Creation
- Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention
- Marin County courthouse incident
- Killing of Henry Marrow
- Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970
- Jackson State killings
- Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1970
- Carter v. West Feliciana School Board
- Institute for Southern Studies
1971
[edit]- Congressional Black Caucus
- War on Drugs
- Griggs v. Duke Power Co.
- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
- Attica Prison riot
- Operation PUSH
1972
[edit]- National Black Political Convention
- Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
- Gary Agenda
- African Liberation Day
- Gates v. Collier
- 1972 Olympics Black Power salute
- MOVE
1973
[edit]- National Black Feminist Organization
- Revolutionary Suicide
- Drug Enforcement Administration
- Georgia v. United States
- District of Columbia Home Rule Act
- Keyes v. School District No. 1, Denver
- White v. Regester
- Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972
1974
[edit]- The National Conference of Black Mayors
- Gates v. Collier
- Boston busing desegregation
- Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974
- Equal Credit Opportunity Act
- Milliken v. Bradley
- Maynard Jackson
1975
[edit]- George Jackson Brigade
- Home Mortgage Disclosure Act
- Livernois–Fenkell riot
- Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1975
See also
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