A History of Racial Injustice - Equal Justice Initiative. December 31st, 1952 First Year in 70 Years With No Reported Lynchings in the United States On December 31, 1952, for the first time in seventy years, a full year passed with no recorded incidents of lynching. Defined as open, non-judicial murders carried out by mobs, lynching befell people of many backgrounds in the United States but was a frequent tool of racial terror used against black Americans to enforce and maintain white supremacy. Prior to 1881, reliable lynching statistics were not recorded. But the Chicago Tribune, the NAACP, and the Tuskegee Institute began keeping independent records of lynchings as early as 1882. As of 1952, these authorities reported that 4726 persons had been lynched in the United States over the prior seventy years and 3431 of them were African American.
May 17th, 1954 United States Supreme Court Declares Racial Segregation of Public Schools Unconstitutional The Supreme Court's landmark decision in Brown v. June 10th, 1954 July 15th, 1954 May 7th, 1955 Rev. Little rock 9. Civil Rights Movement Timeline (14th Amendment, 1964 Act, Human Rights Law) Jan. 23 The 24th Amendment abolishes the poll tax, which originally had been instituted in 11 southern states after Reconstruction to make it difficult for poor blacks to vote.
Summer The Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), a network of civil rights groups that includes CORE and SNCC, launches a massive effort to register black voters during what becomes known as the Freedom Summer. It also sends delegates to the Democratic National Convention to protest—and attempt to unseat—the official all-white Mississippi contingent. July 2 President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Aug. 4 (Neshoba Country, Miss.) History Timeline of the 1950s. Civil Rights Movement Timeline - 1951 to 1959. Civilrights timeline.
Anti-Communism in the 1950s (pg. 86) Timeline (1950's Fashion) Pictures. Inventions of the 1950's. 1950's Appliances/ Props. 1950's New York City.