History timeline
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- 1972 - Bloody Sunday
- 1963 August 28th - The March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr's 'I have a dream' speech
- 1964 - The Civil Rights Act passed by President Johnson
- Bloody Sunday, demonstration in Londonderry (Derry), Northern Ireland, on Sunday, by Roman Catholic civil rights supporters that turned violent when British paratroopers opened fire, killing 13 and injuring 14 others
- 1965 February 21st - Malcolm X's assassination
- I Have a Dream, speech by Martin Luther King, Jr during the March on Washington. A call for equality and freedom, it became one of the defining moments of the civil rights movement and one of the most iconic speeches in American history.
- 1952 August 6th - The second voting Act passed by President Johnson
- This act, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson, banned discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public places, and made employment discrimination illegal.
- 1986 - Martin Luther King Jr's assassination
- Malcolm X, an African American nationalist and religious leader, he was assassinated while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity, which supported Black identity and held that racism, not the white race, was the greatest enemy of the African American.
- It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices which occurred in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a requirement to voting.
- His assassination led to a out pour of anger among Black Americans, as well as a period of national mourning that helped speed the way for an equal housing bill that would be the last significant achievement of the civil rights era.